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Bert Joris

Michel 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 ...

Positive: Music For Sextet And String Quartet

By MICHEL HERR

Label: Igloo Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: The Right Choices?; Pages and Chapters; Unexpected Encounters; The Positive Side; I Think of You; Modules; Chemistry and Mystery; String Positive; Second Look.

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2017

By FRANCESCO MARTINELLI

Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo, Italy March 19-26, 2017 The Bergamo Jazz Festival, one of the most long-lived and prestigious Italian festivals, celebrated in 2017 its 39th edition. Since about ten years the Town of Bergamo nominates a musician as artistic director, and the 2017 edition has been the second under ...

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2017

By LIBERO FARNè

Bergamo Jazz Festival Bergamo, varie sedi 19-26.03.2017 Il Bergamo Jazz Festival, che nel 2018 doppierà la boa della quarantesima edizione, per il secondo anno consecutivo è stato diretto da Dave Douglas, il quale ha imbastito un programma decisamente vario, coinvolgendo un numero sempre maggiore di sedi nella Città Alta e nella ...

Bert 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 ...

Smooth Shake

By BERT JORIS

Label: DeWerf
Released: 2016
Track listing: O.U.T.; Smooth Shake; Only for the Honest; Brussel – Parijs; Spaces; How Could We Forget; Mr. Dado; Nasty Boy; Smooth Shake (radio edit).

Brussels Jazz Orchestra: The Music of Enrico Pieranunzi

By JACK BOWERS

For those few die-hards who may adamantly insist that superior big-band jazz never reaches beyond America's borders, here is irrefutable proof that the reverse is true: the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, world-class in every respect, performing (in concert) admirable compositions by the marvelous Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi with arrangements by the no less marvelous trumpeter Bert Joris ...

Swiss Jazz Orchestra: Sincerely Yours

By JACK BOWERS

The world-class Swiss Jazz Orchestra produced the 2-CD set Sincerely Yours to mark its tenth anniversary in 2013. As is the SJO's custom, the nineteen tracks were taped during a series of stellar concert performances spanning those years, showcasing the orchestra's excellence as a unit and its roster of impressive soloists performing compositions and arrangements by ...

Swiss Jazz Orchestra: Live at Jazzfestival Bern

By JACK BOWERS

Live at Jazzfestival Bern (Mons) Some big-band albums are heated and brassy, others cool and understated, while a precious few simply cast a mesmerizing spell. “Live at Jazzfestival Bern," recorded in May 2013 by the unerring Swiss Jazz Orchestra, drops anchor squarely in the last of those realms, thanks in part to the ensemble's ...