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Garry Dial: Rediscovered Ellington
ByPianist/arranger Gary Dial, reedman/arranger Dick Oatts, along with conductor/arranger Rich DeRosa and The WDR Big Band take a different tack by introducing this superb-but-obscure Ellington music to the world with Rediscovered Ellington: New Takes On Duke's Rare & Unheard Music.
With no touchstones in the set listno "Mood Indigo" or "Black and Tan Fantasy," no "Creole Love Call" or "Satin Doll"Rediscovered Ellington can at times sound contemprary and un-Ellingtonian, as it does on the opener, "Hey Baby," with its brash, full-throated, harmony and modernistic, hard-driving rhythm. Add soloist Dick Oatts' soprano saxophone soloEllington wasn't much of a soprano sax guyas a counterpoint to Paul Heller's torrid tenor sax work for a rousing sound that proves itself more in-your-face than most Ellington music.
"Let The Zoomers Drool," a fine title if ever there was one, is more of a hat tip to the Ellington arranging style, with its easy swing, a bluesy piano turn and the softy luminescent harmonies. "I Like Singing," leans on Duke's classical proclivities, with a gorgeous and ruminative orchestral feel.
The project had its genesis in 1979, in the hiring ofby Ruth Ellington and Stephen James, sister and nephew of Duke EllingtonGarry Dial for the purposes of recording and archiving Duke's entire Tempo music catalogue. The tunes on Rediscovered Ellington come out of this commision almost forty years later, on the sassy and non-introspective "Introspection," the lavish, sparkling "Kiki," and the gorgeously lonely "I Must Be Mad," that wraps up this exquisite set of obscure Ellingtonia.
Track Listing
Hey, Baby; Let The Zoomers Drool, I Like Singing; Just A Gentle Word From You Will Do; Introspection; Kiki; Love Came; KCOR; I Must Be Mad.
Personnel
Garry Dial
pianoGarry Dial: piano, arranger; Dick Oatts: soprano sax, alto sax, flute, arranger; Rich DeRosa: conductor, arranger, big band orchestrations; Johan Horlen: alto sax, flute, clarinet; Karolina Strassmayer: alto sax, flute; Olivier Peters: tenor sax, clarinet; Paul Heller: tenor sax, clarinet; Jens Neufang: bari sax, bass sax, bass clarinet; Andy Haderer: lead trumpet; Wim Both: alt lead trumpet; Rob Bruynen: trumpet; Ruud Breuls: trumpet; John Marshall: trumpet; Ludwig Nuss: lead trombone; Shannon Barnett: trombone; Andy Hunter: trombone; Mattis Cederberg: bass trombone, tuba; John Goldsby: bass; Hans Dekker: drums.
Album information
Title: Rediscovered Ellington | Year Released: 2017 | Record Label: Zoho Music
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