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Bob Lark and his Alumni Big Band: Sweet Return
by Edward Blanco
Trumpeter/educator and big band leader Bob Lark, reunites his Alumni Big Band after their critically acclaimed debut Reunion (Jazzed Media 2012), produced some of the best Jazz orchestrations in the business. Sweet Return is the group's encore performance, their return engagement, their audacious follow up and another masterful stroke by leader Lark. This Alumni band is ...
The Rob Parton Big Band: Christmas Time Is Here
by Jack Bowers
The only plausible impetus for releasing an album of Christmas themes so close to the holiday itself is the inclusion of music that transcends the season and may be auditioned and appreciated throughout the year. Trombonist Chris McDonald accomplished that with his splendid album In the Mood for Christmas, and trumpeter Rob Parton has mirrored that ...
In Tune or Not in Tune... That Is the Question
by Jack Bowers
Suppose a month goes by, you have a column to publish, but nothing has happened that's worth writing about. What do you do then? Read on, as the question is about to be answered. A while back there was a discussion at a Stan Kenton web site (Kentonia) about musicians or groups of ...
"Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On
by Jack Bowers
With Betty sidelined by a bad cough, it was up to me to seek out local jazz events in February, and I managed to find a couple of pretty good ones, starting February 7 at the University of New Mexico's Keller Hall where SuperSax New Mexico performed for the third time in Albuquerque. As you may ...
Synergy Jazz Foundation kicks off the 2012-13 Synergy Jazz Concert Series
Trombone Jazz with Tim Coffman and Rich Medd The Patty and Fred Turner Jazz Center Saturday, November 10, 2012-7:30 pm Chicago area trombonist Tim Coffman will be joined by The Sam Salomone Trio in kicking off the 2012-13 Synergy Jazz Concert Series. Joining Coffman on the November 10 concert will be Iowa City trombonist ...
Bob Lark and his Alumni Big Band: Reunion
by Edward Blanco
Veteran jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn master Dr. Bob Lark has directed many big bands in more than 20 years as Director of Jazz Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. With Reunion, Lark reunites 22 musicians from those bands as his Alumni Big Band, debuting the group on a monster collection of powerful orchestrations. While the ...
Crossroads
By Tim Coffman
Label: Blujazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: Yes or No; Sail Away; Step Lightly; Crossroads; My Old Flame;
Summer in Central Park; Sky Dive; Lament; Caravan; Alone Together.
Tim Coffman: Crossroads
by Budd Kopman
Crossroads gives hope for the future of the jazz mainstream and ultimately for our society itself. If that statement seems like a grand overstatement, then you are in for a thrill when you hear how the straightforward, exciting and joyous way that Coffman and his band play his compositions and arrangements. Maintaining an ...
Tim Coffman: Crossroads
by George Harris
Tim Coffman's sophomore release provides a fine exhibition of how lyrical and soothing a trombone can actually be. Basing his music firmly in the hard bop of the early '60s Jazz Messengers, Coffman and his sextet crisply glide and breeze through a set of hard-driving jazz compositions. On Wayne Shorter's “Yes or No," and Coffman's title ...
Crossroads
By Tim Coffman
Label: Blujazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: Yes Or No; Sail Away; Step Lightly; Crossroads; My Old Flame; Summer in Central Park; Sky
Dive; Lament; Caravan; Alone Together.
