Results for "Orchestre National de Jazz"

The French Scene: Part 5

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 9, 2021

Our stash of exciting recent and upcoming releases was replete with great new music from France so we had to devote to it a whole section of this week's show. Dive into large and small ensemble music of unbounded creativity and multiple influences. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted ...

Vijay Anderson, Francois Houle & Susan Alcorn

by Maurice Hogue
December 2, 2020

One could almost make the case that this episode is a reverse sandwich, with the filling on the outside, considering the first tracks from a sizzling hot Vijay Anderson Trio and the windup tune from pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn and her fine band of Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Mark Feldman and Ryan Sawyer. You could ...

Diskonife, Bruno Räberg, Orientation of We & European Releases

by Maurice Hogue
November 18, 2020

Bassist Bruno Räberg's reputation as a very creative cat is reinforced by his new release, The Prospector, an excellent album with saxophonist Allan Chase and drummer Austin McMahon. Find it on Orbis, Bruno's own label. Speaking of labels, vibraphonist Matt Moran started Diskonife as a new creative outlet for independent releases, which has launched with releases ...

Ben Goldberg, Jason Robinson, Orchestre National De Jazz and More

by Maurice Hogue
October 28, 2020

This episode is a little “reed" heavy with debuts of new recordings by Jason Robinson and his quartet, Ben Goldberg and Kenny Wollesen's Music for an Avant-Garde Massage Parlor, Portugal's José Lencastre, Rachel Musson from England, and I.P.A. from Scandinavia, plus several other saxophonically inclined folks. The Orchestre National De Jazz from France tackles the music ...

Jazzdor Strasbourg 2019

by Henning Bolte
March 3, 2020

Jazzdor Strasbourg 2019 Fosse des Treize and other venues November 10-13, 2019 Jazzdor is a unique double-sided European jazz festival offering a 15-day November edition in Strasbourg and environs including German town Offenburg on the opposite side of the Rhine river, and it also presents a June edition in Berlin. ...

Orchestre National de Jazz

Europa Berlin

By Orchestre National de Jazz

Label: Onjazz Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: L'effacement des traces (Intro); L'effacement des traces; Métonymie (Intro); Métonymie; Révolution (Intro, Pt. 1); Révolution (Intro, Pt. 2); Révolution; Réécriture; Oblitération; 22m 5st; Persistance de l'oubli (Intro); Persistance de l'oubli, Pt. 1; Persistance de l'oubli, Pt. 2; Détournement.

Orchestre National de Jazz: Europa Berlin

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 19, 2015

When guitarist-composer Olivier Benoit was appointed in 2014 as the new artistic director of the prestigious French Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ) some local neo-cons expressed their worries that this orchestra may lose its jazzy touch. Benoit composed before music for orchestras like the Lille-based Circum Grand Orchestra and the La Pieuvre ensemble, but is known ...

Now's the time III: The best in contemporary jazz from France and [tax haven] Luxembourg

by John Ephland
December 10, 2014

Every. One. Of. These. Tracks. Is. A. Keeper. To be swept up in a fervor when listening to music (always an unexpected pleasure) and finding it next to impossible not to write about the experience--during as well as after--is the dream all music journalists crave and celebrate every time they find themselves returning to that zone. ...

Orchestre National de Jazz: Piazzolla!

By Orchestre National de Jazz

Label: Jazz Village
Released: 2013
Track listing: Intro: El día que me quieras; Chiguilín de Bachín / Balada para un loco; Libertango; El día que me quieras / Oblivion; Tres minutos con la realidad; Flores negras; Mi refugio; Adiós Nonino; Soledad / Vuelvo al sur; Pantaleón improvisación; Sunny's Game.