Home » Jazz Articles » Gabriel Evan Orchestra
Jazz Articles about Gabriel Evan Orchestra
About Gabriel Evan Orchestra
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
Related Articles | Concerts | Albums | Photos | Similar ToGabriel Evan Orchestra: Global Entry
by Jack Bowers
At least one dictionary defines an orchestra as a large instrumental ensemble...which combines instruments from different families including bowed string instruments...woodwinds...brass...percussion..." and other instruments such as the piano, celeste...and harp..." Or, in the vernacular of New York-based saxophonist Gabriel Evan, a jazz sextet with some but not all of the above. Which is an around-the-block way of saying that Evan's orchestra" lands somewhere short of the normal definition. And that's by no means the only anomaly on ...
read more