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. After performances at the most renowned jazz festivals and collaborations with the biggest names of the day, Lorraine Desmarais is finally back with a new album. Surrounded by the best Montreal jazz musicians (Jean-Pierre Zanella, Ron Di Lauro, Muhammad Al-Khabyyr, Bob Ellis and many others), she takes us behind the scenes of the big band. A new milestone on a prestigious route. 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 typical instrumentation of big band.

UPC: 774204986926

EAN: 0774204986926

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood