Results for "Hazel Leach"

Hazel Leach

Holding Pattern

By The Composers' Orchestra Berlin

Label: JazzHausMusik
Released: 2022
Track listing: Do Not Go; Jetzt, schon und noch; Daught Abroad; Teetisch; Sacred Birds; Der ungetantzte Tango; To Begin at the Beginning; Nunez; Maskenball; Holding Pattern.

The Composers' Orchestra Berlin: Holding Pattern

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2022

Holding Pattern is the fourth album by The Composers' Orchestra Berlin, which, as the name denotes, is an ensemble wherein “the members of the orchestra are not only improvising instrumentalists but are also the composers." Every one of its ten selections was written and arranged by members of the ensemble. According to the jacket notes, “there ...

Postcard Collection

By Hazel Leach

Label: JazzHausMusik
Released: 2018
Track listing: Postcard 10 Caracas; Postcard 11 Tucuman; Postcard 7 Berwick Upon Tweed; Postcard 8 Lima; Postcard 9 Kalavrita; Postcard aus Sclabendorf am See; Postcard 5 Bonn; Postcard No. 2: Berlin 1929.

Hazel Leach / Composers' Orchestra Berlin: Postcard Collection

by Jack Bowers
June 21, 2018

These picturesque “postcards" from composer / arranger Hazel Leach's well-appointed Composers' Orchestra Berlin are addressed to various locales in Europe and South America, presumably designed to echo musically the special nature of each site. Oddly enough, as there are only eight cards to be delivered, the album opens with Postcards 10 and 11, aimed at Caracas, ...

Free Range Music

By Hazel Leach

Label: JazzHausMusik
Released: 2014
Track listing: Spinoff; Synthadventures of a Spacehero; Mata Hari; Kleiner Stau; Belphegor; Oracao; Postcard No. 1; Totales Tanzverbot; Zamboni; Berlin.

Free Range Music

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2014

Hazel Leach has had quite a musical career. After college, where she studied classical flute as well as jazz / pop saxophone, the Englishwoman spent a number of years as a freelance musician / arranger before moving to Holland in 1979. Six years later she was named lecturer in music at the Arnheim Conservatoire, and in ...