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Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen: The Satie Project II
by Maurizio Zerbo
Più che un mero omaggio a Erik Satie, Dan Willis opera una superba ristrutturazione delle già rivoluzionarie partiture originali mediante l'aggiunta di parti composte per l'occasione. Il musicista statunitense si conferma così autorevole esponente contemporaneo di una musicalità trasversale, aperta alle contaminazioni. È sufficiente l'ascolto del brano di apertura, “Gnossienne # 7," per rendersi conto di ...
Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen: The Satie Project II
by Dave Wayne
The music of Eric Satie may well be some of the most malleable and adaptable works ever composed. This could be partly due to the fact that Satie himself stood well outside of the musical mainstream of his time, thus his compositions are comparatively unencumbered by the stylistic baggage of his era. Satie was avant-garde before ...
John Hollenbeck: profilo di artista
by Angelo Leonardi
Lo scorso mese di agosto il 61° critics poll di Down Beat ha votato John Hollenbeck al primo posto tra gli arrangiatori emergenti, riproponendo valutazioni già espresse in passato (Rising Star Arranger nel 2012 e Rising Star Big Band nel 2011). È il doveroso riconoscimento a uno degli artisti più originali del jazz statunitense ma non ...
Eric Erhardt: A Better Fate
by Dave Wayne
Unlike a lot of jazz artists hawking a debut recording these days, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Eric Erhardt is not fresh out of music school. He has been around for a while, playing for two decades in Broadway pit bands and with trad jazzers Ken Peplowski and Artie Shaw. A student of Dave Liebman, Erhardt's own musical interests ...
Tommy Igoe and the Birdland Big Band: Eleven
by Edward Blanco
Led by East Coast drumming icon Tommy Igoe, the Birdland Big Band delivers powerful performances each Friday night at New York's renowned Birdland jazz club. Eleven captures Igoe and some of the city's finest jazz musicians playing in the same hard-driving fashion on eleven signature arrangements of funk, Latin and contemporary jazz. This high-octane orchestra is ...
Birdland Big Band, New York, NY, December 28, 2011
by Dan Bilawsky
The Birdland Big Band directed by Tommy IgoeBirdlandNew York, NYDecember 28, 2011 Establishing a foothold in the world of big bands today is no easy feat. Strong label support and distribution (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, for example), constant touring, television appearances and festival appearances (as with Wynton Marsalis and ...
The Satie Project
By Dan Willis
Label: Daywood Drive Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Second Gymnopedie; Nocturne # 2; I Idylle; Nocturne # 3; Third Gymnopedie; First Gnossienne; Nocturne # 4; First Gymnopedie; III Meditation; Nocturne # 1; II Aubade; Second Gnossienne; Nocturne # 6; Nocturne # 5; Olga Polka.
Vienna Art Orchestra: The Minimalism of Erik Satie
by Raul d'Gama Rose
This is starting to look like the year of Erik Satie. How else could there be two magnificent albums dedicated to his music? The first was Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen's The Satie Project (Daywood Drive Records, 2010), while this rerelease of 1984's classic, The Minimalism of Erik Satie, features Mathias Rüegg's large ensemble tribute to ...
Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen: The Satie Project
by Raul d'Gama Rose
French composer Erik Satie (1866--1925), a contemporary of Claude Debussy, was often scorned and, had it not been for his friend, Debussy would have been largely ignored as well by his generation. Debussy not only supported Satie, but championed his work as well, and saw to it that some very forward thinking pieces, such as the ...
Dan Willis: The Voice of a Tone Poet
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is an ancient Latin aphorism that was often central to a debate among philosophers discussing art. The debate itself began earlier than the time of Augustan Rome, and over time raged on, occupying the philosophers of Greece as much as it occupied the classicists. It addressed the question of whether poetry was a gift of ...
