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Christophe dal Sasso

Manhattan School of Music Chamber Jazz Ensemble and TACTUS feat. Dave Liebman: Sky Changes

by John Kelman
August 27, 2012

Jazz and classical music have long been bedfellows. As far back as the 1920s, clarinetist/soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was quoting Italian opera in solos, and in the 1950s/60s, notable composers/arrangers like Gil Evans and George Russell were, at least in part, driven to innovation through exposure/study of contemporary classical music, with Gunther Schuller even coining the ...

Exploration

By Christophe dal Sasso

Label: Nocturne
Released: 2006
Track listing: No Fly Zone; Parcours; Piano solo; Relentless; Deux nouvelles; Invocation; New Group; Exploration.

Christophe dal Sasso: Exploration

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 23, 2006

The story goes that flautist/bandleader Christophe dal Sasso, in his tireless quest for new sonorities for his arranging tasks, absorbed the lessons of saxophonist Dave Liebman's treatise A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody. Onstage some time later with a big band at Paris's Sunset nightclub, he applied those lessons to an arrangement of Woody ...