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Rodger Fox Presents Ray Woolf
By Rodger Fox
Label: Tbone / Ode Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Where or When; Goody Goody; You Make Me Feel So Young; South of the Border; Moonlight in Vermont; Can
The Rodger Fox Big Band: No Exit
by Jack Bowers
The superb Rodger Fox Big Band has twice been honored with New Zealand's award for Best Jazz Recording of the Year (2001, 2005), and if No Exit doesn't make it a threesome the judges may have to double-check to make sure their ears and taste buds are working properly. While it may be difficult for some ...
Rodger Fox with the New Zealand School of Music Big Band: Rodger Fox Presents Ray Woolf
by Jack Bowers
Here's a splendid album from New Zealand that works two ways: as singer-with-big-band or big-band-with-singer. The singer is Ray Woolf, described by producer/music director/trombonist Rodger Fox as that country's “consummate performer/vocalist/entertainer. The band is from the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, ably conducted by the selfsame Rodger Fox. Woolf definitely lives up to his ...
Rodger Fox and Brian Smith: The LA-NZ Connection
by Jack Bowers
Jazz truly is a universal language, a premise that is proven again on this spirited post bop studio date by two of New Zealand's most celebrated musicians, trombonist Rodger Fox and saxophonist Brian Smith, backed by a blue-chip West Coast rhythm section--pianist Bill Cunliffe, guitarist Larry Koonse, bassist Tom Warrington, and drummer Joe La Barbera (with ...
The LA-NZ Connection
By Rodger Fox
Label: T-Bones Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Hard Bop & the Fox; Jackson
The Rodger Fox Big Band: A Rare Connection
by Jack Bowers
Last year was the thirtieth for trombonist Rodger Fox's world-class big band from faraway New Zealand, and the celebration was marked by the release of yet another mouth-watering banquet of swinging, straight-ahead jazz from Down Under. This is either the band's sixteenth or seventeenth album, depending on whether one includes Devil May Care, a session from ...
Rodger Fox: Back to Being One
by Jack Bowers
Here’s a consistently colorful, invariably swinging and completely captivating quartet date led by one of the finest trombonists you’ve probably never heard. Rodger Fox, best known as the foreman of New Zealand’s most prominent big band (track eight on this disc, “Xtra Juicy,” is also the name of the ensemble’s newest release), displays the brash awareness ...
