Echoes of Swing: Blue Pepper

Straightahead / Mainstream Jazz
premiera polska: 2013-10-02
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's Info:
Can a band of today catch the excitement and fire of the swing era? The quartet Echoes Of Swing has proved this is possible since its formation in 1997. Some bands of the 1920s and 30s adopted trumpet, reed, piano and drums, such as those of Lovie Austin and Willie “The Lion” Smith, but these were essentially chamber jazz groups. Echoes Of Swing refused to think exclusively on such a small scale. Instead, they found ways to transfer the sounds of much larger forces to a compact tight-knit setting. Starting in 2002 with their third album You’ve Got to Be Modernistic, the band successfully added instrumental colour and nuance to its arrangements, varying the mood and tempo between pieces, and using voicings where the piano deftly added third and fourth parts to the trumpet and saxophone lines.

muzycy:
Colin T. Dawson / trumpet, vocals on 3, 8 & 12
Chris Hopkins / alto sax
Bernd Lhotzky / piano, celesta on 9
Oliver Mewes / drums

more info: www.actmusic.com