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Ginger Berglund & Scott Whitfield: Solitary Moon
by Jack Bowers
The unabridged subtitle of this endlessly charming album is “Ginger Berglund & Scott Whitfield Sing the Johnny Mandel Songbook." For those who were unaware that there is a Johnny Mandel Songbook apart from “Emily," “The Shadow of Your Smile" and “Close Enough for Love," this scintillating summary is a guaranteed eye-(and ear-) opener, lovingly packaged and ...
Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?
by Jack Bowers
Betty and I returned to Albuquerque on Memorial Day after attending Swingin' on a Riff, the latest in a series of marvelous semi-annual events presented by Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute for more than twenty years at venues in and around L.A. This one was held May 23-26 at the Los Angeles Marriott ...
Pointing Fingers... And Naming Names
by Jack Bowers
As the countdown continues toward the last Big Band Report in June, the time has come to point fingers and name names--in other words, to compile a short list of contemporary jazz musicians who have risen above the norm to help make life more pleasurable for one devoted listener. These are, mind you, personal choices, and ...
The "Desert Island" Revisited
by Jack Bowers
Back in the last millennium, shortly after this column first saw the light of day, I posted a list of twenty “desert island" albums, those that would be snugly ensconced in a crash-proof, water-tight carrying case should yours truly ever be marooned on a miniature atoll with nothing to relieve the boredom save palm trees, coconuts, ...
Marching to a Jazz Tempo
by Jack Bowers
March came in like a lion in Albuquerque with no less than four blue-chip jazz concerts in the first five days, three of which I attended, passing on the first (the Charlie Christian Project featuring guitarist Michael Anthony and trumpeter Bobby Shew at The Outpost Performance Space) because Betty and I had seen basically the same ...
Toni Tennille and the Matt Catingub Big Band - Things are Swingin’
Label: Purebred
Released: 1994
Track listing: I Wish I were in Love Again (Hart/Rodgers); Things are Swingin’ (Peggy Lee/Jack Marshall); Making Whoopee
(Donaldson/Kahn); You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (Mercer/Warren); Alright, Okay, You Win (Wyche/Watts);
Teach Me Tonight (Cahn/DePaul); Caravan (Ellington/Mills/Tizol); Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Brown/Henderson); It’s
So Nice to have a Man Around the House (Spina/Elliott); I Got Rhythm (Gershwin/Gershwin); Pardon My Southern
Accent (Mercer/Malneck); Memphis in June (Carmichael/Webster); Hard Hearted Hannah (Bates/Yellen/Ager/Bigelow);
This Can’t Be Love (Rodgers/Hart); That Old Black Magic (Mercer/Arlen); Mañana (Peggy Lee/Dave Barbour)
