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Frankfurt Radio Big Band

Chet Remembered

By Enrico Pieranunzi

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: From E. To C.; Lost And Found; Chet; Soft Journey; Fairy Flowers; Night Bird; Echoes; Brown Cat Dance; The Real You.

Russ Lossing, Artemis, Rudy Royston and More

by Jerome Wilson
August 30, 2023

This show features newer and older jazz from a great variety of players, such as Russ Lossing, Rudy Royston, the group Artemis, and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band which is heard in two contexts, with Julian Arguelles and with Jim McNeely. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The ...

Rituals

By Jim McNeely

Label: Double Moon Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Adoration I; Adoration II; Adoration III; Sacrifice I; Sacrifice II; Rebirth; Dawn; The Wheel; Wine Dark Sea; Okinawa.

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Denis Gäbel: A Deeper Meaning

by Matty Bannond
June 30, 2022

This year, the hr-Bigband welcomes star guests including Nils Landgren, Camille Thurman and John Beasley. It also welcomes a new lead tenor saxophonist: Denis Gäbel. In an interview with All About Jazz, he shares his thoughts about playing with this historic and highly-regarded German big band. Denis Gäbel grew up in a showbiz family. ...

Stravisnky, Satie, Purcell for Jazzheads + Symphonic jazz

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 3, 2022

Spurred by a number of recent albums, this week's edition of Mondo Jazz focuses on projects that blur the lines between jazz music and classical music. This segment's playlist features inspired and open interpretations of works by Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Henry Purcell as well as recent jazz compositions that are rooted in the classical canon. ...

The Music Of Nino Rota

By Simone Zanchini

Label: In + Out Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Speak Softly, Love; Parlami Di Me; La Dolce Vita; La Passerella Di Addio; Impro For Nino; A Time For Us; Mia Malinconia.

Jim McNeely: Barefoot Dances and Other Visions

by Jerome Wilson
November 15, 2018

When today's top composer-arrangers of large ensemble jazz are discussed, Jim McNeely's name sometimes gets overlooked. He deserves the recognition. He's been a long- time associate of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and its descendant, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and he's also done a lot of work with several European big bands. It could be ...