Artist: Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra
Album: New Works (Celebration)
Genre: Cool, Mainstream Jazz
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 1999
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Celebration Jig (Brookmeyer) - 2:32
- Celebration Slow Dance (Brookmeyer) - 8:24
- Celebration Remembering (Brookmeyer) - 10:59
- Celebration Two And (Brookmeyer) - 10:16
- Idyll (Brookmeyer) - 9:37
- Duets (Brookmeyer) - 12:46
- Cameo (Brookmeyer) - 4:28
- Boom Boom (Brookmeyer) - 9:33
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- Personnel:
- Marko Lackner, Stefan Pfeifer - alto saxophone
- Paul Heller, Nits van Haften - tenor saxophone
- Marcus Bartelt - baritone saxophone
- Scott Robinson - baritone saxophone (soloist on #1-4)
- Thorsten Benkenstein - trumpet, (lead)
- Torsten Mass, Sebastian Strempel, Ralf Hesse, Jorg Engels - trumpet
- Ludwig Nuss - trombone (lead)
- Ansgar Striepens, Christian Jakso - trombone
- Edward Partyka - bass trombone
- Kris Goessens - piano
- Jurgen Grimm - keyboards
- Ingmar Heller - bass
- John Hollenbeck - drums
- Christopher Dell - percussion
This stunning release features the recording debut of Bob Brookmeyer's New Art Orchestra, made up mostly of young Europeans recruited by the valve trombonist while touring the Continent. The four-part suite "Celebration" was originally written as a feature for the late baritone sax great Gerry Mulligan for a special concert in 1994, two years before his death. Scott Robinson fills Mulligan's role admirably on this initial recording of this extended work, and Brookmeyer's incredible voicings within the haunting ballad movement "Remembering" are also worth noting. The tracks following the suite are a diverse lot, but all of them merit strong praise. The leader's solo on the closer, "Boom Boom," demonstrates that his playing is as exciting as ever. Highly recommended!
Review by Ken Dryden