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Whaling Ciy Sound Releases "Lineage" by Dave Liebman and Michael Stephans
Since he began to seriously pursue a career as a jazz artist back in the 1960s, Dave Liebman has been on a transformative journey towards becoming a true original in the genre. After assuming sideman slots with the likes of Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, and Chick Corea, to name but a few, he has certainly earned ...
Better Get Hit In Your Soul: A Tribute To The Music Of Charles Mingus
Label: EMI
Released: 2012
Lee Konitz: What True Improvising Is
by Bob Kenselaar
Lee Konitz is legendary as one of the great individualists in jazz, an art form that has always placed an extraordinary high value on individualism and unique forms of expression. “I've pretty much dedicated myself to trying to figure out what true improvising is," he says, “as opposed to playing what you know and getting loose ...
Metro's Midnight Music - Rare Jazz Tracks From The Dutch No's Radio Show 1970 - 75
Label: EMI
Released: 2006
Tabloid Suite
Label: Basta
Released: 2004
Track listing: CD 1 -- Tabloid Suite (Run of the News / Sob Sister / Comic Strip / Going to Press); Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise / Painted Desert / On the Trail / Sunset / Cloudburst) (53:30). CD 2 -- Concerto in F (Allegro / Andante con Moto / Allegro Agitato) (30:43).
Conducted by Rob Pronk
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Released: 2004
Track listing: John Brown's Body; Send in the Clowns; Cherokee; Frosted Black; S'moo Bloose; For Birgit; As the Town Slid Beneath Us; If I Were a Bell; Lover Man; There's a Boat; If I Loved You; I'm Just Wild About Harry; "The Final Round" (a suite in four movements -- The Stance / Two Up / Blues in the Bunker / And the Eagles Sang; At Dawn; Aande Amsterdamse Grachten (79:04).
The Metropole Orchestra: Tabloid Suite
by Jack Bowers
The Netherlands Metropole Orchestra, formed in 1945 by Dolf van der Linden, was inspired by and patterned after bandleader Paul Whiteman's seminal Concert Jazz Orchestra, for which Ferde Grofé served as chief arranger from 1919-33. It was Grofé who orchestrated George Gershwin's groundbreaking “Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924 and his Concerto in F for piano and ...
Metropole Orkest: Conducted by Rob Pronk
by Jack Bowers
Although mentioning Rob Pronk's name to jazz fans here in the States would presumably elicit no more than blank stares, musicians--especially those in the Netherlands--know him well, as Pronk has been a renowned jazz luminary in that country for many years, earning the prestigious Nordring Radio Prize in 1981 and Blaupunkt Music Award in 1988 for ...
