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Tim Hagans-NDR Big Band: A Conversation
by Jack Bowers
A Conversation, by trumpeter Tim Hagans and Germany's superlative NDR Big Band, is really five conversations- -that is, a five-movement concerto composed, arranged and conducted by Hagans who also solos on Movements III, IV and V. Hagans and the band are more than strangers in the night--he has collaborated with NDR for two decades as guest composer, conductor, arranger and soloist. To underscore his purpose, Hagans has grouped the band members not in sections, as is usually done, but in ...
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by Angelo Leonardi
Il trombettista Tim Hagans collabora da un ventennio con la NDR Big Band, distinguendosi non solo in veste di solista ma anche come compositore, orchestratore e direttore d'orchestra. In questo quarto album con l'ensemble di Amburgo presenta il suo lavoro più ambizioso, sperimentando nuove strutture orchestrali in perfetto equilibrio tra modelli tradizionali e libere esplorazioni della forma. L'aspetto più innovativo consiste nella scelta di alterare la classica configurazione della big band in sezioni strumentali a favore di ...
read moreChristof Lauer/Eric Watson Quartet: Road Movies
by Gerrit Roessler
It is a fast and energetic road movie that Eric Watson and Christof Lauer have shot for us. Long driving parts in unison shape the sound of this fascinating record. Lauer is a renowned German jazz performer and composer who stands in the German free jazz tradition of Albert Mangelsdorff, with whom he frequently works, and the European bop of Heinz Koller. On Road Movies he makes use of the full range of his abilities as a virtuoso without just ...
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