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Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!
by George Harris
Well, they said it couldn't be done, but he did it. Arranger Mark Masters has breathed new and refreshing life into Gershwin's Porgy & Bess. Just when you thought Miles may have had the last word back in '61, Masters adds a touch of Mingus, a sprig of Kenton, and songs that you've heard a thousand ...
Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!
by Jim Santella
Mark Masters is conductor and president of the American Jazz Institute in Pasadena, California. His projects honor the history of jazz while putting his personal stamp on each arrangement. Porgy & Bess Redefined! emerges fresh and alive, as Masters has seen fit to arrange the time-tested music for jazz orchestra with its themes cemented between soloists. ...
Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!
by Michael P. Gladstone
This is the second outstanding treatment of Gershwin's famed folk opera, Porgy & Bess, within the past eight months. On the other recent version, Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra faithfully delivered the 1959 Gil Evans-Miles Davis arrangement with Clark Terry providing superlative trumpet interpretation. Mark Masters, who has spent the past few seasons artfully interpreting the ...
Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy and Bess Redefined!
by Dan McClenaghan
Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess has been performed by numerous jazz artists, including Oscar Peterson, Joe Henderson, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Most famously, it was visited by Miles Davis in collaboration with Gil Evans in 1959; and most recently revisited by Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, with Terry ...
Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!
by John Kelman
More than any complete score of the 20th Century, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess has to be the one most covered by jazz artists. A short list of significant players who have tackled the cycle includes Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles and Cleo Laine, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and Joe Henderson. Arguably the most definitive ...
American Jazz Institute Presents The Clifford Brown Project
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Released: 2004
Track listing: Joy Spring, Sweet Clifford, Minor Mood, LaRue, Sandu, Daahoud, I Remember Clifford, Bones for Jones, Swingin', Joy Spring.
One Day With Lee
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Released: 2004
Track listing: Thinkin', Dream Stepper, Gundula, Cork 'n' Bib, 317 East 32nd Street, Lover Man, Palo Alto
Mark Masters Ensemble: American Jazz Institute Presents The Clifford Brown Project
by Michael P. Gladstone
Having recently learned about the ingenuity of Mark Masters per his May 2004 release with Lee Konitz, One Day With Lee , I eagerly anticipated checking out Masters' 2003 album The Clifford Brown Project. In order to examine the body of music associated with the later trumpeter, Masters devised a unique methodology to ...
Mark Masters Ensemble: One Day With Lee
by Michael P. Gladstone
Alto sax legend Lee Konitz seems to gather more steam with each passing year. I saw him play twice in the 1970s and each performance was a revelation. He appeared with a piano-less trio taking it both inside and out before an appreciative undergraduate audience and later in the decade with his bracing nonet. In recent ...
