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Jos Machtel

Octet Sessions, Vol. 3

By Bert Joris

Label: Jazz Master Tracks
Released: 2023
Track listing: Triple; Struttin’ with Struttin’; Connections; Magic Box; Anna; Mr. Dodo; Sundown; King Combo.

Bert Joris: Octet Sessions, Vol. 3

by Jack Bowers
June 27, 2023

For the Octet Sessions, Vol. 3 in Brussels-based Jazz Master Tracks' series of accessible apps, the renowned Belgian trumpeter/composer Bert Joris was tasked with rearranging eight of his splendid compositions written for big bands, symphonic orchestras and other large ensembles for an octet comprised of some of western Europe's leading jazz musicians. Joris chose to do ...

Marieke Koopman: Chapter One

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2021

Vocalist Marieke Koopman grew up in a musical family in The Netherlands. Although the music was baroque (her father is a percussionist, her mother a harpsichordist), Koopman was somehow drawn toward jazz, especially swinging jazz. “The first time I saw a big band perform live, I was mesmerized," she writes. And she made a promise to ...

Bert Joris / Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Smooth Shake

by Jack Bowers
January 3, 2017

While much can be said and written about Belgian trumpeter Bert Joris' music, perhaps no one can more aptly describe the rationale underlying the Brussels Jazz Orchestra's new collaboration, Smooth Shake, than the composer himself: “A warm sound--that's what I had in mind for this album. A sound that envelops you, fills you with energy, like ...

Brussels Jazz Orchestra: The Music of Enrico Pieranunzi

by Jack Bowers
March 23, 2016

For those few die-hards who may adamantly insist that superior big-band jazz never reaches beyond America's borders, here is irrefutable proof that the reverse is true: the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, world-class in every respect, performing (in concert) admirable compositions by the marvelous Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi with arrangements by the no less marvelous trumpeter Bert Joris ...