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Bert Joris: Octet Sessions, Vol. 3
by Jack Bowers
For the Octet Sessions, Vol. 3 in Brussels-based Jazz Master Tracks' series of accessible apps, the renowned Belgian trumpeter/composer Bert Joris was tasked with rearranging eight of his splendid compositions written for big bands, symphonic orchestras and other large ensembles for an octet comprised of some of western Europe's leading jazz musicians. Joris chose to do so by employing a six-horn front line with no piano or other chordal instrument in the rhythm section, only bassist Jos Machtel and drummer ...
read moreEnrico Pieranunzi & Bert Joris: Chet Remembered
by Chris May
Chet Remembered is the second disc the pianist Enrico Pieranunzi has recorded with a big band in as many years. Both are what used to be called “concept albums." 2022's offering, Blues & Bach (Challenge), was made with the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, and celebrated the compositions of John Lewis, mainly those Lewis recorded with the Modern Jazz Quartet. It is a lovely disc. Lovely, too, is Chet Remembered, made with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, conducted by ...
read moreEnrico Pieranunzi & Bert Joris: Afterglow
by Chris May
Enrico Pieranunzi is a multidimensional pianist and composer, but when he is in mellow mood he can remind one of the late, great Henry Mancini—and it is not just his Italian heritage. Pieranunzi is a classically trained jazz musician, whereas Mancini was a jazz trained soundtrack composer with a heaven-sent gift for writing great tunes, “Moon River" and “Baby Elephant Walk" among them. Pieranunzi, too, can write melodies which are lovely and catchy. Like Mancini, he also brings a cinematic ...
read moreMichel Herr: Positive: Music For Sextet And String Quartet
by Ian Patterson
Although perhaps best known as a jazz pianist who has worked with the likes of Archie Shepp, Bill Frisell, Philip Catherine, Joe Lovano, Zbigniew Seifert and Toots Thielemans, Michel Herr has long enjoyed a parallel career as a conductor / musical director, and as an arranger for cinema, television and radio productions. It is in these latter, guiding roles, that Herr steers a sextet of some of Belgium's finest jazz musicians, plus a string quartet, through a programme of his ...
read moreBert Joris / Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Smooth Shake
by Jack Bowers
While much can be said and written about Belgian trumpeter Bert Joris' music, perhaps no one can more aptly describe the rationale underlying the Brussels Jazz Orchestra's new collaboration, Smooth Shake, than the composer himself: “A warm sound--that's what I had in mind for this album. A sound that envelops you, fills you with energy, like a meaningful friendship." With that in mind, Joris (who bears a passing resemblance to the Irish actor Liam Neeson) wrote all ...
read moreNathalie Loriers Trio - Bert Joris & String Quartet: Moments d'Eternité
by AAJ Italy Staff
Presentato in occasione del Gent Jazz Festival 2009, questo oramai ottavo album della pianista e compositrice belga Nathalie Loriers, viaggia sul binomio musica classica/composizione jazz. Moments d'Eternité riesce ad essere un progetto completo e ben strutturato grazie agli eleganti arrangiamenti del trombettista Bert Joris. Complice l'unione tra un quartetto d'archi che suona sullo sfondo della composizione, il pianoforte e la tromba che indicano la vera direzione del brano, tutta la musica rimane costantemente sospesa in atmosfere mitteleuropee, malinconiche e tarde. ...
read moreDeborah Brown: International Incident
by C. Michael Bailey
Kansas City-reared jazz singer Deborah Brown employs an international, multicultural little big band to make progressive American vocal jazz, managing the logistics brilliantly to produce one of the best vocal recitals of the year. This fearless repertoire maven is not afraid of even the stickiest subjects.On International Incident,, Brown takes on two Johnny Griffin compositions ("Take My Hand" and “Make Up You Mind"), Thad Jones' “A Child is Born," and Pat Metheny's “Always and Forever." These are certainly ...
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