Jazz Articles about Jamie Begian

Jamie Begian Big Band: Big Fat Grin

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 28, 2010

Il chitarrista Jamie Begian ha fondato questa big band nel 1998 e dopo dodici anni e mille difficoltà arriva alla sua seconda prova discografica. Un segnale ben preciso che l'arte della big band non è più allineata con i tempi ed il mercato discografico moderni. Eppure Begian ha fatto le cose nel modo giusto: ha raccolto una ventina di ottimi musicisti, ha scritto belle composizioni ed efficaci arrangiamenti, ha registrato il tutto con grande cura per le dinamiche e per ...

Jamie Begian Big Band: Big Fat Grin

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 29, 2010

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If the music on Jamie Begian's Big Fat Grin were any bigger and fatter, the grin would challenge that of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland. No, not the cat that appears in Tim Burton's film, because that image is too phantasmagorical, but rather the wonderful, original creation that appears in the book. It is there that the image is charming, mischievous and ...

The Jamie Begian Big Band: Trance

by Jack Bowers
February 2, 2003

I was introduced to Jamie Begian -- and to Begian’s New York-based big band -- last month during the 30th annual conference of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) in Toronto. Jamie also handed me a copy of his first album, Trance, which I must say is more impressive than I found the band to be in person. Perhaps I’m growing more comfortable with Begian’s uncommon approach to big-band music -- or perhaps my mind is more focused when ...