Results for "NDR Bigband"

A New Documentary From Filmmaker Michele Brangwen Follows The Musicians Of The NDR Bigband On A Weeklong Creative Journey With Grammy-Nominated trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans

November 5, 2022

The NDR Bigband rehearses and performs “A Conversation," a suite by Hagans, who also conducts and solos. Performers discuss their connection to the music and to each other. The hour-long documentary premieres November 6 on Facebook and November 7 on YouTube. Watch a preview of “A Week in Hamburg: Rehearsing and Performing Tim Hagans’ A Conversation” ...

Eda And: Live in Hamburg

by Arthur R George
October 8, 2022

Turkish pianist Eda And went large in her ambitious debut CD, Augmented Life (Kalan), in 2018, leading a contemporary jazz big band in jny: Istanbul through compositions and arrangements that she originally created for the NDR Bigband in jny: Hamburg, Germany. She has returned, scaled back and in a completely different direction, solo, with Live in ...

Size Matters: (Mostly New) Jazz for Big Bands and Orchestras, Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 10, 2021

Big bands and orchestras have something smaller ensembles cannot offer, sheer power and energy, and that often equals tons of fun, like you will find in our ongoing deep-dive into the world of forward-looking big bands and orchestras [after Part 1 and Part 2]. This show features mostly new and upcoming albums from some of the ...

The NDR Big Band

There's nothing quite like the NDR Bigband. Unique among Germany’s radio big bands, the NDR Bigband is a jazz ensemble composed of premier soloists of diverse backgrounds and influences whose collective endeavors coalesce to produce an original and striking group sound for a large ensemble. After leaving behind traditional radio entertainment, prime-time TV shows and the rest of everyday light music, the ensemble has focused their energies on pursuing creative music. From men like long-standing lead saxophonist Herb Geller, a veteran of the West Coast scene, to today’s band members, Frankfurt rhapsodist Christof Lauer on tenor saxophone, abstract expressionist Peter Bolte on alto saxophone, Claus Stötter with all the contemporary trends, the tonal conjuror Ingolf Burkhardt, and the free-thinking avant-gardist Reiner Winterschladen on trumpets, each and every musician contributes his personal array of musical color to the whole, shifting the ensemble’s horizon to the outer regions of the color spectrum. Known to perform various stylistic programs ranging from swing, latin, to avant-garde, the NDR Bigband sounds different on each occasion, yet retains a unifying character that is immediately recognizable

Jazz on the Moon

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 1, 2019

On 20 July 1969, while Herbie Mann was over the figurative moon, because his Memphis Underground was the best selling jazz album in the country, the man was landing on the actual moon (apologies for the gender insensitivity here but otherwise the pun won't work...). What a day! 50 years later we celebrate the ...

Frank Zappa's Jazz Legacy Refuses to Die

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 13, 2018

Frank Zappa may have said “jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" but looking at his life and music one does not get the impression that he really believed that jazz was decomposing or dying a slow death. On Freak Out, one of the most impressive debut albums of all times, he ...