Gordon Jack, Author at Jazz Journal

Reviewed: Ben Webster | Gerry Mulligan

Gordon Jack — Tue, 20 May 2025 10:03:16 +0000

Ben Webster: Soulville (WaxTime 772350-LP) The swing-era trinity of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Ben Webster really wrote the book on the tenor saxophone until John Coltrane and others came along. During the 30s Webster had worked with Andy Kirk, Fletcher Henderson and Benny Carter but it was probably his stay with Duke Ellington (1939-1943) […]

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Reviewed: Noah Peterson | The Dave Robbins Big Band | Dave Brubeck Quartet

Gordon Jack — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:12:58 +0000

Noah Peterson: Coming Home To You (Peterson Entertainment) This is Noah Peterson’s seventh album as a leader, which, as usual has been released on his own Peterson Entertainment label. He often doubles on soprano and tenor but confines himself here to the alto revealing an extrovert Cannonball Adderley influence with perhaps just a little Earl […]

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Reviewed: Ginetta’s Vendetta | Noel Okimoto | Jim Self/John Chiodini Duo | Alexis Cole And The Taipei Jazz Orchestra | John Fedchock | Visions Jazz Ensemble

Gordon Jack — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:24:30 +0000

Ginetta’s Vendetta: Fun Size (Kickin’ Wiccan Music) Ginetta Minichiello (also known as Vendetta) may not be too familiar to many Jazz Journal readers. She is actually a hugely talented exponent of the rarely used pocket trumpet. An alumna of the famed music school of North Texas State University, she later went on to study with […]

Reviewed: Chet Baker | Wes Montgomery & Cannonball Adderley | Charles Mingus

Gordon Jack — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:32:04 +0000

Chet Baker: Late Night Jazz (Elemental Music 73401LP) Recorded three months before his mysterious death in 1988, this handsomely packaged double album finds Chet Baker creating wistful almost ephemeral moods on a set of superior standards. The sleeve note is packed with photographs from the session along with informative essays by writer Brian Morton and […]

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Reviewed: Terry Gibbs Dream Band | Buddy Collette and Teddy Edwards | Vince Guaraldi

Gordon Jack — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:05:28 +0000

Terry Gibbs Dream Band: Vol 7 The Lost Tapes 1959 (Whaling City Sound WCS 143) Economics precipitated the end of the big-band era at least 10 years before Terry Gibbs formed his Dream Band. By the mid-50s, for instance, Count Basie’s 16-piece band was being paid the same amount as Dave Brubeck’s quartet. Gibbs’ decision […]

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Reviewed: Phil Woods | Cannonball Adderley With Sergio Mendes | Sam Most

Gordon Jack — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:29:45 +0000

Phil Woods: Integrity (Red 123177-2) Performing on nearly 700 albums (150 as a leader) Phil Woods kept the bebop flame burning brightly throughout a long and productive career. He burst onto the scene with Dizzy Gillespie’s big band in 1956 and soon became established as the first-call alto in the highly competitive New York studio […]

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Reviewed: Miles Davis | Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers

Gordon Jack — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:08:35 +0000

Miles Davis: Steamin’ (20th Century Masterworks 350270) Just before signing for the prestigious Columbia Records label in 1956 the Miles Davis quintet recorded their final four LPs for Prestige, fulfilling a contract obligation. Miles had been working with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones for most of that year so Cookin,’ […]

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Reviewed: Isrea Butler | Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster | Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond | Ray Conniff

Gordon Jack — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:42:36 +0000

Isrea Butler: Congo Lament (Venus Records VR 1026) Anyone who like me used to eagerly wait for the next Bennie Green LP to be released will love this CD by Dr. Isrea Butler. His sleeve-note really says it all: “When I first heard Bennie Green I was captivated by (his) sound and style”. Green was […]

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Reviewed: Helena Debono & Charlie Bates | Jon De Lucia | Natalie Jacob

Gordon Jack — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:43:29 +0000

Helena Debono & Charlie Bates: A Thousand Nights (Independent BDO1) Helena Debono is a classically trained vocalist who worked with NYJO in 2019 and 2020. She is a well-rounded musician equally at home in the jazz, pop and soul fields as she demonstrates throughout this impressive recording. Her intimate approach to a lyric calls the […]

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Milt Jackson: Plenty, Plenty Soul

Gordon Jack — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:16:39 +0000

The vibist has unusually open blowing moments in a late 50s set featuring Joe Newman, Cannonball Adderley, Lucky Thompson and Horace Silver

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