Results for "Richard Gillis"

Richard Gillis

Tidal Currents: East Meets West

By Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra

Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Inside the Wave; Crossing Lachine; Tidal Currents; Rock Skipping Under the Half Moon.

Rock Skipping Under the Half Moon

April 4, 2024

Album: Tidal Currents: East Meets West
By Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra
Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 07:41

Oriri

January 1, 2023

Album: Voices: A Musical Heritage
By Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Duration: 05:41

Voices: A Musical Heritage

By Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Parallel Steppes; Keeyn; Ochka; Yaseni; Homenaje; The Living mind; Oriri; Shadows; Choro para Amazonia; Ishpiming; The Bison Hunt.

Twisting Ways

Label: WJO
Released: 2021
Track listing: Twisting Ways (The Hand/Dialogue/Opening Glimmers/Hope Shadow); Lydian Sky; Fleur Variation 3.

Suite 150 / A Big Band Portrait

By Richard Gillis

Label: WJO
Released: 2018
Track listing: A Common Place Fanfare; From Far & Wide; Wenen; Waves; Ontario’s Memories; Here: 49 Degrees 52’ 34” N 97 Degrees 8’ 42” W; The More You Know; In Paradisum; Cirrus; Maple; La Nouvelle Nation (The New Nation).

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Suite 150 / A Big Band Portrait

by Jack Bowers
August 16, 2018

To commemorate Canada's one hundred-fiftieth anniversary in 2017, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra commissioned eleven of the country's foremost jazz composers to write music “reflecting some aspect of Canada or being Canadian." The resulting Suite 150 was performed for appreciative audiences and recorded for posterity in November 2017 and March 2018 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Suite Messiah / Steppin' Out

By Richard Gillis

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Steppin’ Out -- Steppin’ Out with My Baby; How High the Moon / Ornithology; The Thought Behind Your Smile; What Is This Thing Called Love; Oz Suite (Merry Old Land of Oz / Over the Rainbow / If I Only Had a Brain); All of You; It Might as Well Be Spring; How Deep Is the Ocean; Caravan; Whispering / Groovin’ High. Suite Messiah -- Take 5, Mary (You Deserve It); Caroling, Caroling; Suite Messiah (And the Glory / Sheep to Keep / Hallelujah); There’s a Train Out for Dreamland; Angels We Have Heard on High; Two Scandinavian Folk Songs; Huron Carol; Joy to the World; Hymn to Freedom.

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Suite Messiah / Steppin' Out

by Jack Bowers
February 14, 2015

Suite Messiah, recorded in 2012 and 2014, is the third and most recent album produced by the excellent Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra from central Canada, while Steppin' Out was recorded in 2007 to mark the orchestra's tenth anniversary. Whereas Suite Messiah is altogether seasonal, Steppin' Out salutes the Great American Songbook by renovating a dozen of its ...