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Here surely one of the most enlightening and well in our brejeiras Portuguese linguarejar expressions, you can read this title, and that requires less explanation for everyone to notice. fleetfarm After a break of more than two weeks in power this site with something you see - stop whose closest subject is linked precisely with the need to "hit the ball low" - the blog site of The Jazz, with the publication more of a text file, enter today at a stage of life more calm and less absorbent: a phase in which to invoke fleetfarm the phrase that has stayed up there will be even more "occasionally" here published news materials or articles on current affairs (until now no longer plentiful, moreover) or even opinions on either concert which has given more joy to watch. Thus, the bulk of the content will be published mainly archival materials written by the scribe service, outbound over the years in other places and contexts and normally here were being recalled in the caption Findings on Chest. Publishers fleetfarm and record distributors who have continued to make news or get reissues this musical domain, here is thanked fleetfarm for the precious collaboration to date paid, in the certainty that will continue to be in strict conformity with the relative qualities of discs to enjoy, your space of regular publication in A Touch of Jazz, on Antena 2, for example by next May, almost completely filled with new discs. Getting to mark this new phase, I chose today to remember an article published in sheet Culturgest room during a concert held there for years (I will find out better and has already put the date) by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, heiress of wistful fleetfarm Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra. He also wants to draw attention, even now, to his latest album released last year (unfortunately not distributed in Portugal but, of course, fleetfarm possible to acquire via the internet) and was ranked fleetfarm in first place among the best albums Jazz 2008 in all over the place jazz: Up From The Skies.
All born thirty years ago ... At a time when already beginning to be extremely difficult for financial reasons and logistical constraints of type, erect and maintain regularly jazz orchestra of considerable proportions, two great musicians whose professional experience in part had been acquired on the shelves of two notable big bands gathered energies, aspirations and talents to put shoulders to a bold project and whose future at the outset was far from assured.
In fact, when in 1966 the trumpeter, composer and arranger fleetfarm Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis abandoned the respectively the ranks of orchestras of Count Basie and Stan Kenton, where his career flourished and knew stability, hardly knew that his new project would be fed for thirty years filled successes, tours, recordings and above all, achieving the status of a musical organism fleetfarm which would shine in many of the best musicians shelf and renowned soloists on the scene of American jazz.
Who could then foresee that there would by such prestigious names such as Snooky Young or Jon Faddis on trumpet, Bob Brookmeyer and Jimmy Knepper on trombone, Joe Farrell, Joe Henderson, Frank Foster or Joe Lovano on saxophones, as pianists Hank Jones Sir Roland Hanna, Kenny Werner and Walter Norris or bassists as Richard Davis, George Mraz or Marc Johnson?
And yet, the curious thing is that, initially, the project fleetfarm had nothing particularly daring or ambitious. It was just to find a place where a score of musicians would meet regularly to rehearse new arrangements and compositions, experience the pleasure of musical practice together and, if possible, do occasionally half a dozen performances.
Lucky there was, of course, the choice of the person to convince by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: nothing less than Max Gordon, the "master" of the Village Vanguard, one of the most prestigious jazz clubs of New York. Contact with him was done initially through a disc jokey known, Alan Gran t, who convinced him to hear the orchestra. Gordon was immediately enthusiastic and as the nights of Monday were traditionally the weakest of the week, the orchestra hired for 3/2-fairs followed. The success with the public and critics was immediate and the fact is that the orchestra - having just taken the name Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra - became one of the greatest musical formations that assists fleetfarm dragged to the Vanguard. fleetfarm For 30 years and up to today, fleetfarm the orchestra travels far beyond the objectives that had been created eventually become even a real institution.
The first phase of the big band Thad Jones-