Author: Desmarais, Lorraine

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 13-10-2009

Details: Product Description Following appearances at the most prestigious jazz festivals and collaboration with the biggest names on the international stages, Lorraine Desmarais is coming back with this long awaited recording. Surrounded with top notch Montreal jazz musicians (Jean-Pierre Zanella, Ron Di Lauro, Muhammad Al-Khabyyr, Bob Ellis and many others), she is re-exploring the big band. A new gem on Lorraine Desmarais's crown. Après des prestations dans les festivals de jazz les plus renommés et des collaborations avec les plus grands noms de l'heure, Lorraine Desmarais nous revient enfin pour un nouvel album. Entourée des meilleurs musiciens jazz montréalais (Jean-Pierre Zanella, Ron Di Lauro, Muhammad Al-Khabyyr, Bob Ellis et bien d'autres), elle nous fait explorer les coulisses du big band. Un nouveau jalon sur une route prestigieuse. From the Artist Until now all my recordings have been made with small jazz groups, trios, or quartets, with invited guests or solo piano. For my tenth album, I wanted to do something different. For a long time I had wanted to produce this disk with a big band and I have to admit that this project is surely one of the most ambitious of my career. The jazz trio (piano, double bass, percussion) being my basic unit, many of the works in the album were first composed for and performed by a small ensemble. The challenge of this big band project was to establish a perfect balance among the arranged sections, the development of the themes and the improvised sections. It is then in a completely different frame of mind that I approached this large jazz ensemble, by focusing on composition in its pure state and on the details that are closely linked to the instrumentation typical of big band.

UPC: 774204986926

EAN: 0774204986926

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood