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Ezra Weiss and The Rob Scheps Big Band: Our Path to This Moment
by AAJ Italy Staff
La prova orchestrale per un compositore di jazz è una meta ambita, un cimento, ma anche un rischio. Per i motivi più vari, da un certo momento in poi la letteratura per big band è entrata in un periodo di stanca, dal quale sempre più raramente sono emerse composizioni davvero innovative. Le difficoltà di gestione di una formazione estesa sono cresciute ancor di più in questo decennio e pochissime orchestre possono ormai permettersi un'esistenza stabile. Per tutte queste ragioni il ...
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by Edward Blanco
A veteran jazz artist and educator, Oregon-based Ezra Weiss is much more than a fine pianist; he is a talented composer and arranger nominated for Best Arranger under the Rising Star category of Downbeat Magazine's 60th Annual Critics Poll of 2012. Since graduating from the country's oldest music school (Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory of Music), Weiss has produced five recordings as well as penning countless compositions for various high school and college music departments. Weiss has always yearned to produce a ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Per questo omaggio alla cantante Shiley Horn, il pianista Ezra Weiss, dopo alcuni dischi alla guida di organici di medie dimensioni, sceglie la formula del piano trio ed una scaletta che alterna cavalli di battaglia della Horn con composizioni originali. Raffinata pianista oltre che cantante, la Horn raggiunse un pubblico più, dopo decenni sulla scena jazzistica, grazie alle undici incisioni per la Verve uscite negli anni '80 e '90. Il suo stile, ricco di pause, silenzi espressivi, melodie e armonie ...
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by Wilbert Sostre
Portland based pianist/composer Ezra Weiss' fifth release is a tribute to Shirley Horn, who died in 2005 at age 71. Horn was an excellent pianist and sensitive vocalist, and a Grammy Award-winner in 1991, for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. Weiss is certainly an extraordinaire composer, the winner of three ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards. Five of the nine compositions on The Shirley Horn Suite are Weiss originals, including “Shirley Horn's Sound Of Love," “May The Most You Wish ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
Pianist Ezra Weiss' love of Shirley Horn's music began in his youth, coming to fruition on lovingly crafted The Shirley Horn Suite, his tribute to the singer and pianist who died in 2005. A mix of originals and standards, his fifth album as leader is a sophisticated work, with some fresh compositions and terrific performances. Weiss' previous albums have featured groups of six or more musicians. This is a traditional piano trio outing, performed with subtlety. Steve ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Non ancora ventottenne, Ezra Weiss rivela nel suo esordio discografico buona personalità sul piano dell’arrangiamento. Una qualità che farà di lui una bella realtà del jazz contemporaneo, se sarà adeguatamente sostenuta da una più spiccata identità al pianoforte. Nelle dieci tracce del suo Get Happy, il trio con pianoforte basso e batteria non graffia, senza lasciare un segno preciso sulla fisionomia dei brani. E lo stesso dicasi per le prove non proprio brillantissime delle vocalist coinvolte, piuttosto convenzionali. Ciò che ...
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by Ken Dryden
Pianist Ezra Weiss' third CD as a leader takes a bit of different path than his earlier outings. On hand once more are alto saxophonist Antonio Hart, tenorist Kelly Roberge and either Billy Hart or Jason Brown on drums, while new faces include bassist Corcoran Holt, trumpeter Kevin Louis and trombonists Andy Hunter or Andrae Murchison, as well as vocals on a few tracks. He also expands his repertoire with standards. The punchy post-bop setting of “It's ...
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