Artist: James Choice Orchestra
Album: Live At Musik Triennale Koln
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Big Band
Label: Leo Records
Released: 2008
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Autoportrait 16:33
Pyrsos 21:48 - untitled
- untitled
Six Chapters In A Rambling Life 16:24 - untitled
- untitled
Trivial Tribute To L.B. 21:26 - untitled
- untitled
- untitled
- untitled
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- Personnel:
- Annette Maye: clarinet, bass clarinet
- Frank Gratkowski: alto saxophone, contra bass clarinet
- Matthias Schubert: tenor saxophone
- Norbert Stein: tenor saxophone
- Niels Klein: tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
- Michael Heupel: flutes
- Benjamin Weidekamp: clarinet
- Matthias Mainz: trumpet
- Udo Moll: trumpet
- Nicolao Valiensi: trombone
- Carl Ludwig Hubsch: tuba
- Melvyn Poore: tuba
- Isis Kruger: voice
- Barbara Schachtner: voice
- Paolo Alvares: piano
- Scott Fields: guitar
- Tom Lorenz: vibraphone
- Thomas Lehn: synthesizer
- Joe Hertenstein: drums
- Radek Stawarz: violin
- Sue Schlotte: cello
- Sebastian Gramss: double bass
- Dieter Manderscheid: double bass
The James Choice Orchestra consists of 23 outstanding players of improvised and written music from the fields of jazz, rock, avant-garde, contemporary classical, world and other styles of music. It has four leaders/composers - Frank Gratowski, Matthias Schubert, Norbert Stein and Carl Ludwig Hubsch. Each composer contributed a lengthy piece of music. One of the goals of the orchestra's leaders is to develop musical structures that let the groups musicians both express themselves and expand the character of each unique composition.
Improvisation also features strongly with the James Choice Orchestra's Live at Musik Triennale Koln, but within the confines of heavily new music- influenced composition. Recorded in his home base of Koln, Gratkowski's 21-minute "Pyrsos" is one of four extended works from each of the leaders of the 23-strong International band (named as a word play on favorite author James Joyce). In two parts, the piece opens with sweeping orchestral textures before fanning out for small group interactions, around Benjamin Weidekamp's excitable clarinet and Udo Moll's garrulous trumpet. As the density of the structure increase, a singer interacts with spoken voice, before the interlocking textures of the through- notated second section. In the liners, three of the four composers highlight the inspiration of Luciano Berio and this disc's prime interest likely resides with those who seek the intersection of contemporary classical music and improv