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El Viento: The Garcia Lorca Project
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: La Canción del Mariquita; Historietas del Viento I: El Viento; Historietas del Viento II: Viento Estancado; Historietas del Viento III: La Brisa; La Tarara; De Los Cuatros Muleros; Sevillanas del Siglo XVIII; La Nana del Caballo Grande; Los Peregrinitos; Angeles Negros; Los Mozos de Monleón; La Layenda del Tiempo.
Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge: The Comet's Tail: Performing the Compositions of Michael Brecker
by Larry Taylor
What better way to commemorate Michael Brecker than with a CD by a hard-driving big band playing his compositions. Brecker, the great tenor saxophonist died in 2007. His music and talent will be long remembered, and Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge have put together a wonderful selection of arrangements, starring some of today's best of ...
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...
"Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Still Ahead" Performance at the Hollywood Bowl
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Josh Groban and other celebrities were in attendance for the recent “Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Still Ahead" performance at the Hollywood Bowl, which featured Miles Evans (son of Gil Evans) as both Musical Director and soloist, along with jazz heavy weights Terence Blanchard (trumpet), Nicholas Payton (trumpet), Jimmy Cobb (soloist), Christian McBride (soloist), Peter Erskine ...
Large Ensembles: Is There a Place in This Large Music World?
by R.J. DeLuke
The big band in jazz has a long and glorious history. It was a prevalent form in jazz music in the '20s and '30s, comprising a substantial part of America's popular music heard on radio, spun on gramophones and record players, and enjoyed in dance halls. It gave rise to iconic band leaders like Fletcher Henderson, ...
Traincha w/ Metropole Orchestra: This Girl's In Love: Burt Bacharach Songbook
by Chris May
You don't need to be Austin Powers to enjoy Burt Bacharach. The composer is a primogeniture descendant of the geniuses who created the great American songbook--the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin, and their contemporaries. Usually in the company of lyricist Hal David, Bacharach wrote and arranged some of the most grown-up chart music of ...
Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge Set to Release "The Comet's Tail: Playing the Compositions of Michael Brecker" on August 11
Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail: Playing The Compositions of Michael BreckerSet for August 11 Release on MAMA RecordsWith performances by Randy Brecker, Danny Gottlieb, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Mike Mainieri, Adam Nussbaum, Mike Stern and Rob ThomasMAMA Records is proud to announce Chuck Owen & ...
Melody Gardot: My One And Only Thrill
by Ian Patterson
The old saying 'stick to what you know' has paid handsome dividends for Melody Gardot, for in writing her own songs she is able to express her considerable talent to the full. With the exception of one non-original, (a Brazilian tinged “Somewhere Over the Rainbow") these self penned songs show that Gardot is a poet bursting ...
Jim Beard: Revolutions
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Few big band music is as exiting and swings with such abandon as the music played by the various incarnations of ensembles that gather together in the name of Charles Mingus, and that played by bands sometimes assembled by Carla Bley and, of course, the music directed by the one and only Maria Schneider. And then ...
Vince Mendoza / The Metropole Orchestra: El Viento: The Garcia Lorca Project
by John Kelman
After nearly a ten-year break, composer/arranger/conductor Vince Mendoza returned with the Grammy-nominated Blauklang (ACT, 2008). As if intuiting that another decade-long gap would be excessive, he's back a year later with El Viento: The García Lorca Project--this time focusing primarily on conducting a group of guests alongside Holland's Metropole Orchestra, for whom he's been chief conductor ...
