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Within Us

By Chuck Owen

Label: MAMA Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Chelsea Shuffle; Trail of the Ancients; American Noir; Milestones; Apalachicola; Sparks Fly; The Better Claim; Within Us (An Invincible Summer).

Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: Within Us

by Angelo Leonardi
September 20, 2021

Giunta al settimo disco, l'orchestra The Jazz Surge di Chuck Owen celebra i 25 anni di un'attività discografica ricca di riconoscimenti (tra cui sette nominations ai Grammy) e prestigiose collaborazioni (Chick Corea, Joe Lovano, Bob Brookmeyer, Dave Douglas, Bill Holman, Gerald Wilson e molti altri). Nata nel 1995 come estensione della cattedra di Owen ...

Chuck Owen: Within Us

by Pierre Giroux
September 17, 2021

Anniversaries are a big deal, especially when they celebrate a notable achievement in the history of a contemporary jazz big band. So when the 25th Anniversary of the first recording of the Jazz Surge came along, Chuck Owen thought it would be a suitable occasion to acknowledge the past and continue to look forward, with the ...

Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: Within Us

by Jack Bowers
September 9, 2021

Any big band celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary has earned a triumph surpassing most others. To mark the occasion with an album as admirable as this one is icing on the celebratory cake. The fact is, composer/arranger Chuck Owen's Florida-based Jazz Surge, formed in 1995, shows no signs of aging or becoming obsolete. Thanks to Owen's broad-beamed ...

Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge: Whispers on the Wind

by Jack Bowers
October 23, 2017

Chuck Owen's Florida-based and Grammy-nominated Jazz Surge is back in the saddle with another series of impressive musical portraits, Whispers on the Wind, whose genesis harkens back to Owen's childhood in windy Omaha, NE, and whose inspiration derives in part from the works of three contemporary authors: Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King (the last, ...

Here We Are

By Chuck Owen

Label: MAMA Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: E Ticket; Study Score; My Foolish Heart; Duets; Off Flow; Red Beans and Ricely Yours, Part 1: Struttin’; Red Beans and Ricely Yours, Part 2: A Gate’s Gate.