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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 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 ...

Neil Slater: Legacy: Neil Slater at North Texas

by Karl Ackermann
November 30, 2017

In 1942, a University of North Texas graduate music student, M. E. Hall, was asked to teach dance band arranging to two students, an activity that led to his thesis on a closely related topic. That thesis developed into the foundation of the school's jazz curriculum. Years later, Hall helped launch the jazz program which included ...

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.