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recommendations for big bands? of course their's ellington, basie et al, but how about newer folks. i've listened to pete peterson big band but not too familiar with others.
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Fri, February 9, 2007 - 6:51 AM.....closer to this end of the 20th century...Mingus...Dewey Redmond(father of Joshua)....Lou Tabaken/Toshio Akioshi.....Gerry Mulligan....
I see at this point in the music's history putting together a big band as a technical and financial challenge...almost like a goal aside from the music..that more musicians will persue for its' own sake..and I am more confident that the lure of chasing down charts and figuring out how to book these bands will keep the form alive and well for another decade. -
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Fri, February 9, 2007 - 8:46 AMjaco pastorius put together a big band that was pretty swinging... check out "invitation" (live record.)
there's also strange hybrids going on these days, too such as dakah hiphop orchestra (jazz/funk/hiphop/other.) i'm sure there's others, but they are the first that come to mind.
lew tabackin & toshiko akioshi have kept a big band rolling for a while now. as hinted at earlier, that's quite a feat.
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Fri, February 9, 2007 - 2:49 PMIf you like more modern writing, try the Maria Schneider orchestra. Positively gorgeous!
Elise
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Fri, February 9, 2007 - 4:23 PMIt's not a BIG big band, but check out:
www.preservationhall.com/2.0/ -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 8:41 PMI've been catching up with the Dave Holland Big Band recently, which I really like. Some consider it as more of a quartet with more horns, but it sounds like a modern big band to me. If you like anything Holland has been involved with (I know him mostly Kenny Wheeler and a couple ECM albums), I recommend it.
Other names to throw out there: Tom Kubis, Bob Mintzer, Woody Herman, Matt Catingub .... I consider these more like "college" big bands gone pro, but that's probably just me.
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 9:45 PM<I've been catching up with the Dave Holland Big Band recently, which I really like. Some consider it as more of a quartet with more horns, but it sounds like a modern big band to me.>
most big band stuff is really just orchestrated small group stuff anyway...
<If you like anything Holland has been involved with (I know him mostly Kenny Wheeler and a couple ECM albums), I recommend it.>
he's also played with a couple of obscure guys you prolly never heard of: miles davis & pat metheny...
<Other names to throw out there: Tom Kubis, Bob Mintzer, Woody Herman, Matt Catingub .... I consider these more like "college" big bands gone pro, but that's probably just me.>
well, without having been in a college jazz band i wouldn't know who tom kubis was, but i think i knew mintzer through being a sideman. don't forget don sebesky! dunno if he did the big band thing live, but he did a lot of arranging for cti (creed taylor industries--60s & 70s "smooth jazz" label with a lot of heavyweights on the sessions) and college bands play a lot of his charts. -
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 6:28 AM....well, the Miles Davis tribe never seems to have any interest, lately. Kinda like Bach being overlooked by euroclassistists. Fuss!
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 1:01 PMthanks all for your suggestions. now all i have to do is find time to check them all out; i seem to post things like this when i have the least amount of time to follow up. i'm sure that i'll get to it soon. good to see the activity on this site, hope we can keep things moving.
