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Not Dad's Big Bands
They're not your father's big bands. This episode of New Sounds looks at the recent generation of new-music big bands, including Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, an all-brass, post-modern big band that was the avant-garde trumpeter's most popular vehicle. Classical ensemble London Brass joins composer John Surman and saxophonist Jack DeJohnette on the exciting CD, Free and Equal. And Fanfare Du Loup chimes in as well; hear its organized chaotic jazzy-brass band stuff with kick, drawing on Tango, Rumba, Cumbia, Calypso, skirt, jazz or Musette thrown in for good measure.
PROGRAM # 2134, New Music for Big Bands (First aired on Tues., 3/18/03)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Fanfare Du Loup |
Hors De Portées |
Cosmogonie [2:00] |
Zone #14. Distributed by Plainisphare CH-1267 Vich, Switzerland
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John Surman, Jack deJohnette, London Brass |
Free And Equal |
Free And Equal [5:30] |
ECM #1802 |
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Fanfare Du Loup |
Hors De Portées |
Fanfou Du Lard [6:00] |
See above. |
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David Taylor Octet |
Live At The Knitting Factory |
Duke Ellington: Mahalia Jackson [4:00] |
This recording not commercially available. More info at www.davetaylor.net |
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Gerry Hemingway |
Songs |
Cheap [4:30] |
Between The Lines #024 |
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Misha Piatigorsky |
Private recording |
The Immigrant [4:00] |
This recording not commercially available. Info at www.mishamusic.com |
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Fanfare Du Loup |
L'Ile Du Cabotin |
The Lily [2:30] |
PAV #830 Distributed by Plainisphare. See contact info above. |
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Either/Orchestra |
Radium |
Moanin' [8:00] |
Accurate #3232 |
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Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy |
I Only Have Eyes For You |
Lament [12:00] |
ECM #1296** |
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