LOREN SCHOENBERG AND HIS JAZZ ORCHESTRA featuring KATE KORUM & WARREN WOLF

SO MANY MEMORIES

Turtle Bay Records

This album time-travels us back to the 1930s with a 16-track collection of previously unheard arrangements by Eddie Sauter.  He was the man who created respected and popular arrangements for vibraphonist Red Norvo and his wife, singer Mildred Bailey.  During their heyday, they were celebrated as “Mr. and Mrs. Swing”

Loren Schoenberg’s Jazz Orchestra is a 15-piece ensemble of Julliard-affiliated musicians, both students and alumni, with Schoenberg at the helm. Having played piano early in his career, working with some of the members of big band history, Schoenberg established his own band in 1980.  That ensemble morphed into the last Benny Goodman Orchestra in 1985.

Schoenberg has chosen vocalist Kate Korum and vibraphone master, Warren Wolf to be the featured artists on this project aptly titled, “So Many memories.”   They open this album with a Duke Ellington tune (lyrics by Irving Mills) called, “Azure.”  It’s a moderate tempo ballad that winds us back to the 1930s when it was first released. Today, it’s a classic in the big band genre.  I would have enjoyed hearing the lyrics, but the vocalist sat-out on this one.

She is up front and swinging on “Nice Work if You Can Get It.” Her voice is perfect for this project, reminding us of Mildred Bailey and that vein of jazz singers in the thirties.

Loren Schoenberg is a multi-instrumentalist, a Juilliard professor, as well as a two-time Grammy winning jazz scholar.  As a historian, formerly executive director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Schoenberg’s work has been crucial in preserving and promoting jazz history with emphasis on the big band jazz era. Recorded in the Julliard band rehearsal room, his repertoire continues with “You Go to My Head.”  This was a song I used to love to hear Dinah Washington sing. This is followed by “I Know that You Know,”  an up-tempo arrangement that warmly features Warren Wolf flying across the vibraphone with improvised energy. This tune was a popular hit record for Doris Day, Glenn Miller, and two legendary jazz pianists, Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson. It features spectacular trombone solos by Andre Perlman and Nick Mesler.  Each plays their solo, then they trade fours with drummer Matt Lee.

This is music that winds the clock back to a time and place many of us have never experienced, except perhaps in old classic films or in our great grandparents’ album collection.  It’s a lovely way to keep an era alive.

BAND MEMBERS are: Loren Schoenberg, piano/conductor; Kate Kortum, vocals; Warren Wolf, Xylophone; James Zito, guitar; John Murray, bass; Matt Lee, drums; TRUMPETS: Summer Camargo, Anthony Hervey; TROMBONES: Andre Perlman & Nick Mesler; WOODWINDS: Julian Lee, Daniel Cohen & Adam Stein, saxophone/clarinet; Langston Hughes II, saxophone.

Reviewed by Dee Dee McNeil

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