Highlights the jazz orchestra in a way that this virtuoso
ensemble is rarely seen - in the role of spontaneously
'co-composing' musicians.
Jakob
Levinsen, Berlinske Tidende,
Denmark
Blue Spring, opening.
Manuscript.
Winter Oranges featuring Vincent Nilsson.
Manuscript.
Featuring
The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra conducted by Graham Collier
Anders Gustafsson,
Benny Rosenfeld, Thomas Fryland, Henrik Bolberg, Knud Erik
Nørregaard (trumpet, flugelhorn)
Vincent Nilsson, Steen Hansen, Kim Aagaard, Annette Husby
(trombone)
Axel Windfeld (bass trombone, tuba)
Michael Hove, Nikolai Schultz, Uffe Markussen, Tomas
Franck, Flemming Madsen (saxophones etc)
Nikolaj Bentzon (piano)
Thomas Ovesen (bass)
Anders Chico Lindvall (guitar)
Søren Frost (drums)
Ethan Weisgard (percussion)
‘It was a
great pleasure to work with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra
again after a gap of many years. Many of the musicians were
new to me, but some had been in the band when I worked
regularly with them in the 1960s and 70s. Present in the
audience at the second concert we played together - sadly
not recorded - was another member of those early bands: the
great bassist Neils-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, whose untimely
death in 2005 was a great shock to us all.’
(From the liner notes to the CD)
Recording
History
Recorded live at
the Copenhagen Jazzhouse, November 2000
Released on CD by Jazzprint 2002
Mixed and mastered
by Tom Leader of LCL
Digital
Reassigned
to jazzcontinuum, 2009
The
Tracks
Three Simple
Pieces, Part One and Part Three,
Winter Oranges Suite
Blue Spring
Eggshell Summer
Tinted Autumn
Winter Oranges.
The
Jazz
Ensemble’s
versions of Three Simple Pieces, Part One and Part Three
can be heard on The Third
Colour.
A new version of Eggshell Summer can be heard on Meltdown
(SLAM),
recorded by George Haslam’s group of the same name,
where it was described as ‘a slice of fragile
nostalgia, an evocation of something evanescent and on the
point of vanishing, his characteristic harmonic subtlety
put to quietly dramatic use’. (Penguin Guide
to Jazz Recordings, Ninth Edition.)
Some
Reviews
The
radio Big Band wholeheartedly identifies themselves with
the improvised method of composition, which Graham Collier
is practising with considerable success. The result is a
musical journey, which changes between intense eruptions
and oases breathing vegetative calm.
Boris
Rabinowitsch, Politiken,
Copenhagen
In Winter Oranges Collier was a very authoritative and
experienced leader of the orchestra, which responded to
this technique and left the conductor free to bring out
their strengths.
Erik
Wiedemann, Dagbladet
Information, Denmark
Through
the years Collier has consistently showed an affinity for
nuance, color, and texture without sacrificing the
emotional spontaneity that is at the heart of Jazz,
somewhat in the vein of Gil Evans. Collier continues to
hone his craft, and the results here testify to his past
achievements and continued creativity.
Steven
Loewy, All
Music Guide
A
colourful expressive series of interweaving, interlocking
musical lines that reject the old big band divide of
soloist and ensemble in favour of a much more fluid,
generous musical expression. With musicians of this calibre
to hand, the result is a strong work that grows in stature
with repeated listening.
Simon
Adams, Jazz Journal
InternationalThe quote in the subheading is
from Jay Collins, onefinalnote.com
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