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The Jim Widner Big Band

The Jim Widner Big Band: Out of This World

by Jack Bowers
November 18, 2007

Bassist Jim Widner, who set the bar incredibly high on his earlier albums as leader of the Jim Widner Big Band (there have been four), clears it handily again on Out of This World, whose name graphically underscores the ensemble's impressive strength and solidarity as well as the album's abundance of superlative charts and hair-raising solos. ...

The Jim Widner Big Band: Flying High...

by Jack Bowers
February 18, 2004

Something was bothering me as I listened to “Juba,” the adrenalizing opening track on the fourth and most recent album by bassist Jim Widner’s world-class big band. It was Phil DeGreg’s piano. Not the comping—Phil’s too capable for that—but the piano itself, unusually clanky and far too prominent in the mix. Rather than chaperoning quietly in ...

"Rides Again" Live

By The Jim Widner Big Band

Label: Chase Music Group
Released: 2000

The Jim Widner Big Band: "Rides Again" Live

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2000

I first stumbled across bassist Jim Widner’s all–star big band about three years ago, and what a fortunate mishap that was. Rides Again, the band’s third recording and first in front of an audience (at Drury College in Springfield, MO), is as breathtaking as the previous two, and they were nothing short of spectacular. This is ...