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Justin Morell: Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Justin Morell, himself a world-class guitarist, does not play guitar (or anything else) on this splendid new album, which, even so, could not have taken flight without him. Morell, an assistant professor of music at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania, composed and arranged the inclusive three-movement Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra, performed in his stead ...
Justin Morell: Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra
by Mark Sullivan
Guitarist/composer Justin Morell has recorded six albums as a leader, and written several ensemble pieces that featured guitar parts. He found that he enjoyed exploring the guitar's capabilities, so the Concerto was created to focus on the guitar as solo instrument accompanied by a large ensemble in the classical concerto tradition. He joined with his lifelong ...
Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2018
Track listing: Lost, Found and Lost; Life and Times; Terraforming.
Frost Concert Jazz Band Under The Direction Of John Daversa Releases Concerto For Guitar And Jazz Orchestra By Justin Morell, Featuring Adam Rogers
Jazz is an art form that allows musicians to drawn upon an endless array of stylistic and cultural traditions. While a number of jazz artists have incorporated the sophisticated forms of classical music in their writing and performances, there are few true concerto works for a jazz orchestra and fewer still composed for guitar. On Concerto ...
Justin Morell Dectet - Subjects and Compliments
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Noun Ember; Fugue in B, In Three Voices; The Wobbler; O; Fugue in B-
flat, In Three Voices; Fugue in E-flat, In Five Voices; The Straight
Man; Fugue in E, In Four Voices; Sun Subtle; Fugue in C, In Three
Voices; Sang.
Justin Morell: Justin Morell Dectet - Subjects and Compliments
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitarist Justin Morell has succumb to his inner conflict between jazz and classical musics and composed a dozen pieces bowing to each in what may best be considered a jazz suite. This is not Gunther Schuller's “Third Stream" or the Modern Jazz Quartet's chamber jazz. It is a little bigger than that. Morell leads one of ...
Blood Orange
Label: Secret Hatch Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Serpentine One; Entering the Wild; Repeater; Moonfruit; Serpentine Two; Blood Orange; Microscopic Horses; Serpentine
Three; Monkey Wrench of the Future; Serpentine Four; Resolve.
The Music Of Steely Dan
Label: Sonic Frenzy Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Home at Last; My Rival; I Got the News; Third World Man; The Royal Scam; Maxine; End of the Line; Babylon Sisters.
Justin Morell Quintet: The Music Of Steely Dan
by Glenn Astarita
Rock/pop band, “Steely Dan" signified the epitome of hip-ness thanks to a string of monumentally successful recordings. They blended cool, jazzy licks with memorably melodic themes and soul, blues, rock frameworks during their successful 1970's run. In fact, the main proprietors of the band, keyboardist, Donald Fagen, and bassist, Walter Becker hired well-known jazz session musicians ...
Dogs Outside
Label: Evander Music
Released: 2000
Track listing: 1 Dogs Outside; 2 Too Much Tea; 3 Streaming; 4 Big Oak; 5 Workshop; 6 Dark Day; 7 Los Angeles In The Sky; 8 Universal Dreams
