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Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra

Size Matters: (Mostly New) Jazz for Big Bands and Orchestras, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 7, 2021

As we continue our journey in the recent work of some of the most compelling jazz orchestras and big bands of today, and a few from the past that were so ahead of their time that their music still sounds fresh. [Click here to listen to the part 1]. Happy listening! PlaylistBen ...

chuffDRONE, Treesearch & Mark Segger

by Maurice Hogue
February 12, 2020

This episode is a mixed bag of some newer releases and some recent ones definitely worthy of revisiting. The Austrian quintet chuffDrone takes an interesting approach to its highly polished improvisation, while the duo of bassist Rob Clutton and saxophonist Tony Malaby create an album of gems on Offering; it's the kind of personal connection that ...

Lisa Hoppe, Alexandra Grimal, Miles Okazaki, The Comet Is Coming & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 9, 2020

The second part of this week's show focusing on newly released album features, in particular, large ensembles, electronically infused improvised music and the many recent collaborations of the Brazilian transplant in Paris, guitarist Nelson Veras. For the first part of the show click here Happy listening! Ben Allison ...

Works For Me, Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra, Eunhye Jeong and William Parker

by Bob Osborne
January 30, 2020

Their are four featured albums on this show Works for Me --a new group of musicians put together by Marc Free at Posi-tone records kicks off that labels output for the new year/decade in fine form. The Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra, The TJCO has been the natural evolution of two previous didactic ...

More 2019 Favourites

by Maurice Hogue
January 29, 2020

There's a continued look at 2019 favourites in this edition (the entire first segment, then random thereafter), but some new releases have filtered in as well: drummer Jeff Davis and a great band debut The Fastness, while clarinetist Aaron Novik continues a string of new albums, and one of the premier avant-garde trios--George Graewe, Ernst Reijseger ...

Tower Jazz Composers Orch. & Daniel Bernardes

by Maurice Hogue
January 8, 2020

Improvisation is the core of clarinetist Ben Goldberg's Good Day For Cloud Fishing, and not just the music. His fascination with poet Dean Young's work led to the creation of this album where the trio of Goldberg, Nels Cline and Ron Miles improvised upon a musical sketch that Goldberg wrote based upon one of Young's poems. ...

Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra

By Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra

Label: Over Studio Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Okapi, Pt. I; Lucid Dream; High Tension Store; Trova L’Intruso, Pt. I; Tammorra; Provvisorio; Yellow Trip; B - Brisbane; Trova L’Intruso, Pt. II; Transitions; 81; Tower War; Ecce Combo; Iuvenes Doom Sumus / Okapi, Pt. II.

Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra alla Sala Vanni di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
December 6, 2019

Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra A Jazz Supreme Sala Vanni Firenze 29.11.2019 Fresca dell'uscita del suo primo, omonimo disco (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione), si è esibita sul palcoscenico della Sala Vanni, per A Jazz Supreme, la Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra, formazione che prende il nome dal Torrione di ...

Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra: Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra

by Angelo Leonardi
December 2, 2019

Dopo tre anni di attività la Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra pubblica il suo debutto. Il nome è ispirato alla storica Jazz Composer's Orchestra di Carla Bley e Michael Mantler e al suo progetto di base: un collettivo di compositori orientati a superare le gabbie stilistiche del modern mainstream orchestrale. L'organico è emanazione del ...