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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 Receives Grammy Nomination
Composer/Arranger/Saxophonist Frank Macchia has received a nomination in the category of Best Arrangement for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. The nomination is for the arrangement of the traditional folk song “Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" which was performed by The Prague Orchestra and Frank on tenor saxophone. You can hear the entire ...
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 ...
Frank Macchia: Emotions
by Jack Bowers
Jazz meets the symphony on this ambitious enterprise by composer/arranger/saxophonist Frank Macchia and the Prague Orchestra, the inspiration for which was Stan Getz's album, Focus (Verve, 1961) which Macchia, now in his mid-forties, first heard more than thirty years ago. The centerpiece is Macchia's four-movement suite for saxophone and strings, Emotions, whose sections represent anger, hope, ...
Frank Macchia: Mo' Animals
by Jack Bowers
I looked up “versatile in Webster's and there, believe it or not, was a picture of Frank Macchia. (No, not really, but there could have been.) On Mo' Animals, his graphic “tribute to all creatures big and small, Macchia plays no fewer than fourteen instruments (fifteen including synths) and handles drum programming when necessary. Oh, and ...
Mo' Animals
Label: Cacophony
Released: 2005
Track listing: Hummingbirds; Monkeys; Pigs; Bats; Frogs; Whales; Elephants; Chickens; Rhinos; Lions (66:19).
The Galapagos Suite
Label: Cacophony
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1- The Birds Of Tower 2- The Iguanas Of Fernandina 3- The Flamingos Of Floreana 4- The Tortoises of Santa Cruz 5- The Penguins of Bartolome 6- The Sea Lions Of Isabela
