(Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Big Band) Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - Коллекция - 2002-2018 (6 альбомов) (w/ Tommy Smith, Brian Kellock, Bobby Wellins), M

Tommy Smith founded the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra in 1995, and remains its director. SNJO has presented programmes of both repertory classics and more contemporary works, often specially commissioned.
The repertory programmes have included Duke Ellington’s extended suites, celebrations of Count Basie and Benny Goodman (with special guest Ken Peplowski) and the collaborations between Miles Davis and Gil Evans – Porgy & Bess, Sketches of Spain (both with Gerard Presencer as trumpet soloist) and Miles Ahead (with Ingrid Jensen). SNJO has also presented the music of Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Benny Carter, Stan Kenton, Thelonious Monk, Steely Dan, Astor Piazzolla and Pat Metheny (with guitarists Jim Mullen, Phil Robson, Mike Walker and Kevin MacKenzie) and premiered special commissions by Keith Tippett, Florian Ross, and Geoffrey Keezer, as well as specially commissioned arrangements of John Coltrane, Chick Corea (with drummer Gary Novak), Wayne Shorter featuring Gary Burton, Electric Miles featuring John Scofield, Weather Report featuring Peter Erskine, and Kurt Elling.
In addition, SNJO has performed music by contemporary jazz creators. These include Kenny Wheeler’s Sweet Sister Suite; Joe Lovano’s Celebrating Sinatra, with arrangements by Manny Albam; a programme of the music of Maria Schneider, conducted by the composer; and Smith’s own Planet Wave, an adventurous large-scale composition made possible by the Arts Foundation/Barclays Bank jazz composition fellowship prize which marries Smith’s music to poet Edwin Morgan’s text. The concerts with Joe Lovano also featured the premiere of Smith’s Torah, a work based on the first five books of the Bible, in which a titanic struggle occurs between good and evil. Written over seventy days, the fifty-minute composition was created specially for Lovano and SNJO. The same evening Torah was being premiered in Scotland, Dame Cleo Laine and John Dankworth premiered another work by Smith and Edwin Morgan, The Morning of the Imminent, at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
SNJO has also provided a platform for jazz musicians and composers based in Scotland to write for big band in concerts devoted to suites comprising contributions by orchestra members and external contributors alike. These include The Solar Suite, Great Scots Suite and The Edinburgh Suite.

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - Miles Ahead
Год издания диска: 2002 (Spartacus STS005)
Продолжительность: 43:16
Треклист:
01. Springsville (Carisi) - 3:32
02. The Maids of Cadiz (Delibes) - 4:21
03. The Duke (Brubeck) - 4:33
04. My Ship (Gershwin-Weill) - 4:38
05. Miles Ahead (Davis-Evans) - 3:41
06. Blues for Pablo (Evans) - 8:24
07. New Rhumba (Jamal) - 4:47
08. The Meaning of the Blues (Troup-Worth) - 2:58
09. Lament (Johnson) - 2:29
10. I Don't Want to Be Kissed (Spina-Elliot) - 3:53
Состав:
Ingrid Jensen - trumpet, flugelhorn
Tommy Smith - conductor
Belinda Gough - flute, alto flute
Mhari - clarinet
Michael Huntriss, Allon Beauvoisin - bass clarinet
Laura Macdonald - alto saxophone
Eddie Severn, Hedley Benson, Tom MacNiven, Colin Steele - trumpets
Charles Floyd - French horn
Chris Grieve, Mark Boyd, Ronnie MacNiven - trombone
Lorna McDonald - bass trombone
Andy McKreal - tuba
Orlando Le Fleming - bass
John Rae - drums
Recorded live at the Matt Thomson Hall, Glasgow in 2000.

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - Rhapsody in Blue (Live)
Год издания диска: 2009 (Spartacus STS013)
Продолжительность: 54:00
Треклист:
01. Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin) - 54:00
Состав:
Martin Kershaw - clarinet, alto saxophone
Paul Towndrow - alto saxophone
Tommy Smith - tenor saxophone, conductor
Konrad Wiszniewski - tenor saxophone
Bill Fleming - baritone saxophone
Ryan Quigley, Paul Newton, Tom MacNiven, Linsey McDonald - trumpets
Chris Greive, Michael Campbell, Michael Owers - trombones
Lorna McDonald - bass trombone
Graeme Scott - guitar
Brian Kellock - piano
Calum Gourlay - acoustic bass
Alyn Cosker - drums
Recorded live at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh (Edinburgh International Jazz Festival) on July 28, 2006.

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - In the Spirit of Duke
Год издания диска: 2012 (Spartacus STS017)
Продолжительность: 72:55
Треклист:
01. Black and Tan Fantasy (Ellington)/Creole Love Call (Oliver) - 3:46
02. In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) - 3:07
03. Jack the Bear (Ellington) - 3:38
04. Le Sucrier Velours (Ellington) - 3:08
05. Daybreak Express (Ellington) - 3:33
06. Concerto for Cootie (Ellington) - 3:56
07. Harlem Air Shaft (Ellington) - 2:51
08. Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington-Mills-Gordon) - 4:48
09. Sepia Panorama (Ellington) - 3:00
10. Ko-Ko (Ellington) - 2:56
11. Morning Mood (Grieg) - 4:10
12. Anitra's Dance (Grieg) - 3:15
13. The Single Petal of a Rose (Ellington) - 4:51
14. Kinda Dukish & Rockin' in Rhythm (Ellington-Mills-Carney) - 6:46
15. Sunset and the Mockingbird (Ellington) - 5:08
16. Diminuendo in Blue (Wailing Interval)/Crescendo in Blue (Ellington) - 14:02
Состав:
Tommy Smith - tenor saxophone, director
Brian Kellock - piano
Ruaraidh Pattison - lead alto saxophone, lead soprano saxophone, clarinet
Martin Kershaw - lead clarinet, alto saxophone
Konrad Wiszniewski - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Bill Fleming - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Ryan Quigley, Cameron Jay, Tom MacNiven, James Marr - trumpets
Chris Greive, Phil O'Malley - trombones
Michael Owers - bass trombone
Calum Gourlay - acoustic bass
Alyn Cosker - drums
Recorded live in Scotland on October 24-28, 2012.

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - American Adventure
Год издания диска: 2014 (Spartacus STS018)
Продолжительность: 59:19
Треклист:
01. Splatch (Miller) - 7:43
02. Duke Ellington's Sound of Love (Mingus) - 6:02
03. Yes or No (Shorter) - 5:46
04. Pendulum (Beirach) - 10:32
05. Dear Lord (Coltrane) - 12:35
06. Quartet No.1 (Part 2) (Corea) - 9:43
07. Pinocchio (Shorter) - 6:58
Состав:
Ru Pattison - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
Martin Kershaw - clarinet, alto saxophone
Konrad Wiszniewski - tenor saxophone
Bill Fleming - baritone saxophone
Ryan Quigley, Cameron Jay, Tom MacNiven, James Marr - trumpet, flugelhorn
Chris Greive, Phil O’Malley - trombone
Michael Owers - bass trombone
Brian Kellock - piano (#1-3,7)
Calum Gourlay - acoustic bass
with
Mike Stern - guitar (#1)
Tommy Smith - tenor saxophone (#2), director
Kurt Elling - voice (#2)
Joe Locke - vibraphone (#3)
Alyn Cosker - drums (#3)
Donny McCaslin - flute and tenor saxophone (#4)
David Kikoski - piano (#4-6)
David Liebman - soprano saxophone (#4)
Randy Brecker - trumpet (#5)
Bill Evans - tenor saxophone (#6)
Michael Dease - trombone (#7)
Joel Frahm - tenor saxophone (#7)
Clarence Penn - drums (#7)
Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York in June 2013.

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - Culloden Moor Suite
Год издания диска: 2014 (Spartacus STS020)
Продолжительность: 38:35
Треклист:
01. Gathering (Wellins) - 8:02
02. March (Wellins) - 10:36
03. Battle (Wellins) - 8:12
04. Aftermath (Wellins) - 6:34
05. Epilogue (Wellins) - 5:11
Состав:
Bobby Wellins - tenor saxophone solo
Martin Kershaw, Paul Towndrow, Tommy Smith, Konrad Wiszniewski, Bill Fleming - saxophone
Ryan Quigley, Cameron Jay, Lorne Cowieson, Tom MacNiven - trumpet
Chris Greive, Kieran McLeod, Michael Owers, Lorna McDonald - bones
Steve Hamilton, Brodie Jarvie, Alyn Cosker - rhythm
Recorded at Gorbals Sound, Scotland in May 2013.

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - Sweet Sister Suite by Kenny Wheeler
Год издания диска: 2018
Продолжительность: 56:36
Треклист:
01. Sweet Sister (Wheeler) - 6:26
02. Keeper of the Light (Wheeler) - 6:11
03. Worlds Apart (Wheeler) - 9:30
04. Her Love Is Like an Endless Stream (Wheeler) - 9:11
05. Constant Star (Wheeler) - 7:06
06. Wondering Dream (Wheeler) - 8:49
07. Twilight Chant (Wheeler) - 7:30
08. Utopian Recital (Wheeler) - 1:53
Состав:
Martin Kershaw, Paul Towndrow, Konrad Wiszniewski, Tommy Smith, Bill Fleming - saxophones
Tom Walsh, Sean Gibbs, Tom MacNiven, Lorne Cowieson - trumpets
Chris Grieve, Phil O’Malley, Liam Shortall, Michael Owers - trombones
Pete Johnstone - piano
Rob Luft - guitar
Calum Gourlay - bass
Alyn Cosker - drums
Recorded at Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland, Scotland on February 5-6 and March 24, 2017.