BARRY GUY. LONDON
JAZZ COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA
Radio Rondo
IRENE SCHWEIZER
Schaffhausen Concert
Barry Guy:director,
bass
Irène Schweizer: piano
Evan Parker: reeds
Mats Gustafsson: reeds
Trevor Watts: reeds
Simon Picard: reeds
Pete McPhail: reeds
Conrad Bauer: tmb
Johannes Bauer: tmb
Alan Tomlinson: tmb
Henry Lowther: tpt
Herb Robertson: tpt
Rich Laughlin: tpt
Per Åke Holmlander, tuba
Phil Wachsmann: violin
Barre Phillips: bass
Paul Lytton: percussion
Lucas Niggli: percussion
1.
Schaffhausen Concert (Irène Schweizer) (15’25)
Irène Schweizer: Piano Solo
2. Radio Rondo (Barry Guy) (30’01)
London Jazz Composers Orchestra
Recorded
Mai, 21, 2008 at Schaffhauser Jazzfestival, Switzerland. Schaffhausen Concert
is recorded by Radio DRS 2, Martin Pearson.
Radio Rondo is recorded by Willy Strehler. Mixed and mastered by Willy Strehler.
Liner notes: Bill Shoemaker. Photos: Francesca Pfeffer. Cover art and graphic
design: Jonas Schoder.
Intakt CD 158 / 2009
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"After
her riveting prelude-like solo, Schweizer applied her pan-stylistic
approach to Guy’s challenging, playerempowering score. Though
Guy retained the form’s traditional utility as a soloist’s
showcase on “Radio Rondo,” he expanded the scope of the
rondo’s back and forth to feature Schweizer in several subgroupings
– a pummeling quintet passage with Guy, bassist Barre Phillips,
and drummers Paul Lytton and Lucas Niggli – as well as encounters
with the full force of the 17-piece contingent. In the later, Guy cued
single-note stabs, flurried textures and a host of other events from
parts of the orchestra, spiking the power of the notaded materials.
For all of the piece’s intensity, Guy slipped beautiful passages
– like the plaintive melody stated by tenor saxophonist Simon
Picard – into the piece. A magisterial theme set up the piece’s
final tutti blast.”
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ODE TO A BASSIST
American jazz monthly «All About Jazz New York» features Barry Guy on the Front Page and a long portrait in the Mai issue 2009. Visit the portrait, written by «All About Jazz New York» -Editor Andrey Henkin: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/
click the image for the whole portrait
Irène Schweizer on Intakt Records
Mats Gustafsson on Intakt Records
Trevor Watts on Intakt Records
Simon
Picard on
Intakt Records
Conrad Bauer on
Intakt Records
Johannes
Bauer on Intakt Records
Herb Robertson on
Intakt Records
Per Åke Holmlander on Intakt
Records
Paul Lytton on Intakt Records
Lucas Niggli on Intakt Records