(contemporary jazz, big band) Maria Schneider Orchestra - Sky Blue - 2007, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Maria Schneider Orchestra - Sky Blue Жанр: contemporary jazz, big band Год выпуска диска: 2007 Производитель диска: USA, ArtistShare {B000UCZU3K} Аудио кодек: FLAC Тип рипа: tracks+.cue + Complete Artwork Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 01:02:56 Трэклист: 01 - The 'Pretty' Road 02 - Aires De Lando 03 - Rich's Place 04 - Cerulean Skies 05 - Sky Blue Представляю вашему вниманию композитора года и аранжировщика по версии авторитетнейшего ресурса 2010 JJA Jazz Awards - Победитель Гремми 2007 как лучшая инструментальная композиция "Cerulean Skies" - № 1 альбом года в опросе критиков в журнале Down Beat. Это последний на данный момент компакт-диск композитора.   line up: Steve Wilson - alto & soprano sax, clarinet, flute, alto flute Charles Pillow - alto sax, piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute Rich Perry - tenor sax, flute Donny McCaslin - tenor sax, clarinet Scott Robinson - baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet Tony Kadleck - trumpet, fluegelhorn Jason Carder - trumpet, fluegelhorn Laurie Frink - trumpet, fluegelhorn Ingrid Jenson - trumpet, fluegelhorn Keith O'Quinn - trombone Ryan Keberle - trombone Marshall Gilkes - trombone George Flynn - bass trombone, contrabass trombone Ben Monder - guitar Frank Kimbrough - piano Jay Anderson - bass Clarence Penn - drums Gary Versace - accordian (tracks 1,2 & 4) Luciana Souza - voice (tracks 1 & 4) Gonzalo Grau - cajon, palmas, percussion (tracks 2 & 4) Jon Wikan - cajon, palmas (track 2) percussion (tracks 3 & 4)       review Five BIG Stars!! This is a wonderful big band jazz performance by the awesome Grammy-winning and multiple DownBeat Jazz Poll-winning composer, arranger, and orchestra leader Maria Schneider. Her large 17 piece group comes up big with a HUGE performance on her third CD. With superb soloists, unusual shifting tempos, and orchestrations that range from solo instruments out of tempo to huge dense orchestral colorations unlike any you'll find in jazz or any other music, this is wonderful jazz that is very inspiring and intellectually stimulating. Ms Schneider is influenced by her mentor, the legendary Gil Evans, but bears her own individual music stamp with quicksilver music that ranges from deep introspection to high exultation. She paints on a huge sonic canvas that at once evokes the sweeping strokes of painter Jackson Pollock and the pointillism of Georges Seurat, while giving seven of her talented musicians lots of solo time in their respective songs, which shows the capabilities of the overall orchestra. Neither conventional 4/4 swing nor New Age, it's very exotic & fascinating stuff that pulled me into the sonic canvas. It's the direct descendant of the symphonic Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Charles Mingus, and maestro Evans, but with her own adventurous twists and turns. Each song is a 'Piece De Resistance' in itself using multiple tempos, extensive solo time, dense sonic layers, and unusual effects. On "The 'Pretty' Road", Ingrid Jensen's blazing serpentine-like solo goes from flugelhorn to trumpet to electronic trumpet layers. Guest vocalist Luciana Souza wordlessly soars above it all. "Aires de Lando" is a halting, tango-like theme with a wild virtousic clarinet solo by Scott Robinson that builds to a crescendo with the orchestra pushing and complementing the solo. The whole orchestra virtually 'comps' behind the solo in a really weird and wonderful effect that almost approaches a solo in itself as it surges ahead of the clarinet at places. A unusual but terrific performance!! "Rich's Piece" has a air of foreboding and dissonance behind the extensive slithery Rich Perry tenor sax solo, with rising waves of sound that dissipate only to rise again, and shifting instrumental clusters of sound, with Jay Anderson's free roaming bass commenting underneath. The epic "Cerulean Skies", the 2007 Grammy winner for Instrumental Composition, is almost 22 minutes of musical wonder, populated by a forest of orchestral bird and forest-like effects that bend perfectly to the arc of the song's theme before the entire song lifts and soars into the sonic sky, with a hip backbeat and a dash of funk. Grammy-nominated reed man Donny McCaslin gets off a wild tenor sax solo that ranks as one of the year's best jazz solos as he surfs the valleys, mountains, and canyons of Ms Schneider's awesome orchestrations with Ms Souza again making an appearance. But this is only half of this epic sonic masterwork, I'll leave the rest of this discovery to you. Ms Schneider's music is brought to us through fan-financed ArtistShare, whose website sells it either directly or through other specific sellers. After a month of being blown away by these performances, this wonderful Grammy-nominated CD with the 2007 Best Instrumental Composition Grammy-winning "Cerulean Skies," gets My Highest Recommendation. Five AMAZING Stars!!       log EAC extraction logfile from 6. 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