Artist:
Yellowjackets
WDR Big Band
Genre:
Big Band
Jazz
Total Time:
76:00
Record Label:
Mack Avenue Records
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, iTunes
Release Date
November 6, 2020
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Yellowjackets
WDR Big Band
Genre:
Big Band
Jazz
Total Time:
76:00
Record Label:
Mack Avenue Records
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, iTunes
Release Date
November 6, 2020
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Product Description: GRAMMY® Award-winning quartet Yellowjackets presents Jackets XL, a celebratory 25th album where the time-honored jazz ensemble joins forces with the WDR Big Band to create a dynamic new sound
As a tight, longstanding jazz ensemble, Yellowjackets has explored a universe all its own of electro-acoustic soundscapes in its nearly four-decade history. Since the band’s eponymous 1981 debut album, Yellowjackets has consistently forged ahead with innovative and challenging artistic statements. For Jackets XL, its 25th album and fourth for Mack Avenue Music Group, the band continues to stretch and reinvent itself with an exciting, full-bodied collaboration with the superb WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany. The project combines the shapeshifting, multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning quartet with the renowned big band, re-imagining well-known band originals with dynamic new arrangements that feature twists and turns, textures and colors, moving harmonies and bold solos.
“This band has never been one to rest on its laurels,” says tenor saxophonist/EWI player Bob Mintzer, a Yellowjacket since 1990 and the WDR Big Band principal conductor since 2016. “The Yellowjackets are very adept at reinventing. The four of us are the most adaptable musicians I’ve ever worked with. Any setting, any style, we know we can do it. As for the WDR, they’re one of the best large jazz ensembles in the world. I knew the two groups would make for a nice marriage.” The band also comprises founder, keyboardist Russell Ferrante, drummer Will Kennedy and electric bassist Dane Alderson in his third recording for the group.
With its pockets of halcyon, buoyance, mystery, tumult, groove and whimsy, Jackets XL plays out as a multifaceted documentation of how far the band has come. “It was like putting a new set of clothes on,” Mintzer says. “This represents how the Yellowjackets play now.”
As a tight, longstanding jazz ensemble, Yellowjackets has explored a universe all its own of electro-acoustic soundscapes in its nearly four-decade history. Since the band’s eponymous 1981 debut album, Yellowjackets has consistently forged ahead with innovative and challenging artistic statements. For Jackets XL, its 25th album and fourth for Mack Avenue Music Group, the band continues to stretch and reinvent itself with an exciting, full-bodied collaboration with the superb WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany. The project combines the shapeshifting, multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning quartet with the renowned big band, re-imagining well-known band originals with dynamic new arrangements that feature twists and turns, textures and colors, moving harmonies and bold solos.
“This band has never been one to rest on its laurels,” says tenor saxophonist/EWI player Bob Mintzer, a Yellowjacket since 1990 and the WDR Big Band principal conductor since 2016. “The Yellowjackets are very adept at reinventing. The four of us are the most adaptable musicians I’ve ever worked with. Any setting, any style, we know we can do it. As for the WDR, they’re one of the best large jazz ensembles in the world. I knew the two groups would make for a nice marriage.” The band also comprises founder, keyboardist Russell Ferrante, drummer Will Kennedy and electric bassist Dane Alderson in his third recording for the group.
With its pockets of halcyon, buoyance, mystery, tumult, groove and whimsy, Jackets XL plays out as a multifaceted documentation of how far the band has come. “It was like putting a new set of clothes on,” Mintzer says. “This represents how the Yellowjackets play now.”
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Downtown (6:30)
2 . Dewey (7:28)
3 . Mile High (5:11)
4 . The Red Sea (7:43)
5 . Even Song (8:23)
6 . One Day (6:32)
7 . Tokyo Tale (7:43)
8 . Imperial Strut (5:53)
9 . Coherence (7:35)
10 . Revelation (6:21)
2 . Dewey (7:28)
3 . Mile High (5:11)
4 . The Red Sea (7:43)
5 . Even Song (8:23)
6 . One Day (6:32)
7 . Tokyo Tale (7:43)
8 . Imperial Strut (5:53)
9 . Coherence (7:35)
10 . Revelation (6:21)
OTHER ALBUM RELEASES:
- New Album Releases: THE MAKARRATA PROJECT (Midnight Oil) - Rock
- New Album Releases: AFTER THE GREAT STORM (Ane Brun) - Pop
- New Album Releases: THE OTHERSIDE (Cam) - Country
- New Album Releases: OOCYTE OIL & STOLEN ANDROGENS (Black to Comm) - IDM/Experimental
- New Album Releases: BUDAPEST CONCERT (Keith Jarrett) - Jazz
- New Album Releases: AMERICAN BEAUTY (Grateful Dead) - 50th Anniversary Edition
- New Album Releases: ARTLESSLY FALLING (Mary Halvorson's Code Girl) - Jazz
- New Album Releases: ELLEN WEST (Ricky Ian Gordon, Nathan Gunn, Jennifer Zetlan, Aeolus Quartet & Lidiya Yankovskaya)
- New Album Releases: RACHMANINOFF - PRELUDES; ETUDES-TABLEAUX; MOMENTS MUSICAUX (Sergei Babayan)
- New Album Releases: CHANSON D'AMOUR (Sabine Devieilhe & Alexandre Tharaud)
- New Album Releases: JOHN RUTTER - ANTHEMS, HYMNS & GLORIA FOR BRASS BAND (Black Dyke Band, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Nicholas Childs & Darius Battiwalla) /a>
- New Album Releases: DISCO (Kylie Minogue) - Pop
- New Album Releases: RETURN TO GREENDALE (Neil Young & Crazy Horse) - Live
- New Album Releases: ELECTRIC MEDITATIONS (The Silence) - Rock
- New Album Releases: SUMMERTEETH (Wilco) - Rock
- New Album Releases: CONFETTI (Little Mix) - Pop
- New Album Releases: PETRICHOR (Heather Trost) - Alternative Folk
- New Album Releases: THE HUM (Ben Chatwin) - Electronic
- New Album Releases: O (Orianthi) - Hard Rock
- New Album Releases: SIBELIUS - KULLERVO, OP. 7 (Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä)
- New Album Releases: ARMED FORCES (Elvis Costello) - Super Deluxe Edition
- New Album Releases: POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH MUSIC (Tina) - Alternative
- New Album Releases: FADING (Pole) - Electronic
- New Album Releases: A BAG OF EYES (Seamus Fogarty) - Alternative
- New Album Releases: JOHANNES BRAHMS - CLARINET SONATAS (András Schiff & Jörg Widmann)
- New Album Releases: AZYMUTH JID004 (Azymuth, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge)
- New Album Releases: ALBORES (Dino Saluzzi) - Jazz
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please keep the comments as civilised as possible, and refrain from spamming. All comments will be moderated. Thank you !