While You Were Out...

構成数 : 2枚
合計収録時間 : 01:48:18
Orange Then Blue includes: Matt Darriau (saxophone, flute, clarinet); Dave Douglas, Dave Ballou, Cuong Vu (trumpet); Mark Yaylor (French horn); Rick Stepton (trombone); Tim Ray (piano, synthesizer); Paul Del Nero (bass); George Schuller (drums, percussion). Additional personnel includes: Darcy Hepner (flute); Greg Runions (percussion). Recorded at The Banff Center For The Arts, Banff, Canada from July 7-10, 1992. Personnel: Bob Bowlby (flute, piccolo, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Darcy Hepner (flute); Matt Darriau (kaval, pennywhistle, clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Chris Speed (clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Cuong Vu, Dave Ballou, Dave Douglas (trumpet); Mark Taylor (French horn); Rick Stepton (trombone); Peter Cirelli (bass trombone, euphonium); Tim Ray (piano, synthesizer); George Schuller (drums, percussion); Seido Salifoski (dumbek). Audio Mixers: Bob Patton; Brian Ales. Liner Note Author: Joe Lovano. Recording information: Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada (07/07/1992-07/10/1992). Photographers: Peter Cirelli; Rick Stepton. Arrangers: Matt Darriau; Tim Ray; Chris Speed. A transitional album can sometimes be a band's most exciting effort, representing fresh ideas, the taking on of new blood, or perhaps just the beginning of a door closing on one phase and opening on another. Orange Then Blue's double-CD opus While You Were Out is one such album, standing as a final document of the group's years as a Boston-based ensemble and presenting the first inkling of its soon-to-emerge status as an outlet for many of the top musicians on the New York downtown jazz scene. Led by drummer/composer George Schuller (son of Gunther), OTB started in 1984 as a group of young musicians who were receiving their jazz educations in Boston. By the time this fifth OTB album was recorded in 1992, the band was poised to shift operations to New York City under George Schuller's continued leadership. And as the decade progressed, bandmembers like reedmen Matt Darriau and Chris Speed, trumpeter Cuong Vu, and others would be leading their own New York-based bands, continuing to explore ideas they began investigating during their Boston days. Another notable presence on While You Were Out is trumpeter Dave Douglas, a musician who had left Boston for New York at around the same time that OTB was first formed. So when listening to While You Were Out today, one detects a distinct New York downtown flavor, even if Douglas was pretty much the only musician present who was starting to make his name in New York when the CD was recorded. Douglas' turbocharged large-ensemble arrangement of "Slow Boat to Mechanicsville," a piece heard in a quintet version on New and Used's Souvenir album, here features rich sonorities and harmonizations as well as opportunities for both fiery solo and group improvising. Darriau, of course, was one of the first of the new breed of East Coast jazzers who began incorporating Eastern European influences in his music, starting while in Boston and then continuing with his New York-based Paradox Trio. Here he arranges the traditional Bulgarian dance "Gankino Horo," giving solo spots to himself (on kaval and alto sax) and to Douglas, whose own interest in Balkan and Eastern European-influenced creative improvisation would find a particularly fulfilling outlet in his Tiny Bell Trio. Chris Speed's album opener, "Scatter," was also featured as the title track of Human Feel's GM Recordings debut cut the preceding year. With a boppish and angular head and avant-flavored collective improvisational structure in its middle section, the OTB version is also notable for a burning and uncannily vocalistic trumpet solo from Vu, who would later lead a New York-based quartet and trio while also playing a significant role in one of Speed's most exciting New York bands, his yeah NO quartet. Elsewhere on While You Were Out, the music ranges from Darriau-ar
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