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Saxolollapalooza
Label: Cacophony
Released: 2008
Track listing: Air Mail Special; Down by the Riverside; My One and Only Love; Working Day and Night; Java; Caravan; Shortening Bread; Bluesalicious!; Creole Love Song; Work Song; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; That's A-Plenty.
Frank Macchia: Saxolollapalooza
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Way in the background on some classic big band recordings, there is a high-pitched aural glow, a sustained, ethereal, almost liturgical hum coming from somewhere in the reeds section. Duke Ellington's “There Shall Be No Night," from the great Blanton/Webster Band box set (Bluebird, 1990), has it. Partly it's the recording technology of the time, sufficiently ...
Frank Macchia: Landscapes
by Michael P. Gladstone
Tenor saxophonist/composer/arranger Frank Macchia has made a significant album that follows-up his Grammy-nominated Emotions (Cacophony, 2006). Again utilizing the strings of the Prague Orchestra under the direction of Adam Klemens, Macchia has submitted another ambitious work to the public. Listening to Landscapes, the two things that come to mind are film scoring and the ...
Frank Macchia: Landscapes
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The prospect of a saxophone and strings record is likely to call to mind Charlie Parker's controversial Bird With Strings (Mercury, 1949), but that's not the obvious reference point once you've listened to this recording. Saxophonist Frank Macchia's Landscapes is a saxophone concerto for classical orchestra, framed by treatments of classic American songs in the same ...
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
Album: Landscapes
By Frank Macchia
Label: Cacophony
Released: 2007
Duration: 4:37
Frank Macchia with The Prague Orchestra: Landscapes
by Dan McClenaghan
Listening to the opening notes on Frank Macchia's Landscapes, one can't help but hear a Stan Getz vibe blowing into play. It's not the Getz of the bossa nova sounds with Antonio Carlos Jobim, or his boppish mainstream work, but rather the Stan Getz of Focus (Verve Records, 1961), with the tenor saxophonist improvising over a ...
Frank Macchia with The Prague Orchestra: Landscapes
by Edward Blanco
A follow-up to composer/arranger/saxophonist Frank Macchia's critically acclaimed Emotions (Cacophony, 2006), which received a Grammy nomination for “Best Arrangement ("Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair ), Landscapes is the second part of an extended session of symphonic music cleverly diced with strong jazzy overtones. As with the first album, Macchia employs the string-laden ...
Landscapes
Label: Cacophony
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Sidewalks of New York; Shenandoah; Down In The Valley; Landscapes Suite - for Saxophone & Orchestra: I.Golden Fields, II.Desert Heat, III.River Rapids, IV.Arctic Chill, V.Jungle Life, VI.Forest Twilight; Deep River; Avalon; Way Down Yonder In New Orleans.
Frank Macchia: Emotions
by Edward Blanco
Those whose musical tastes run the spectrum from jazz to classical will find composer/saxophonist Frank Macchia's Emotions to be a beautiful concept album fronting the voice of the tenor in a setting of classically orchestral music. Inspired by saxophonist Stan Getz's classic Focus (Verve, 1961), Macchia joins the Prague Orchestra conducted by Adam Klemens for a ...
Frank Macchia: Emotions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Folgorato dall’ascolto di Focus, lo storico album di Stan Getz registrato con l’orchestra di Eddie Sauter, il multistrumentista e compositore Frank Macchia ha coltivato per trent’anni il sogno di registrare un disco per sassofono e orchestra d’archi. L’occasione è finalmente arrivata con questo Emotions nel quale il sassofonista di San Francisco è accompagnato dalla Orchestra di ...
