Jazz Composers Orchestra Update Michael Mantler

• 1 Update One (Live) 04:45
• 2 Update Eight (Live) 06:01
• 3 Update Nine (Live) 05:45
• 4 Update Eleven (Live) 07:02
• 5 Update Five (Live) 05:03
• 6 Update Six (Live) 07:24
• 7 Update Ten (Live) 06:46
• 8 Update Twelve, Pt. 1 (Live) 06:50
• 9 Update Twelve, Pt. 2 (Live) 02:49
• 10 Update Twelve, Pt. 3 (Live) 02:30
• Total Runtime 54:55

Info for Jazz Composers Orchestra Update

1968 nahm der Komponist und Trompeter Michael Mantler das Album The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra auf. Ursprünglich auf dem JCOA-Label veröffentlicht (und später von ECM vertrieben), präsentierte dieses bahnbrechende, heute als Klassiker geltende Album ein von Mantler dirigiertes, großes Jazz-Orchester. Es hatte einige der Ikonen unter den freien Jazzimprovisatoren jener Ära in seinen Reihen: Den Pianisten Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry am Kornett, den Posaunisten Roswell Rudd, die Saxofonisten Pharoah Sanders und Gato Barbieri, sowie den Gitarristen Larry Coryell.

Im Zuge der Digitalisierung seines Katalogs machte sich Mantler mit den alten Arrangements wieder vertraut, und entwickelte schließlich Ideen für neue Fassungen des Originalmaterials. Für The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update hat Mantler seine Musik der 1960er Jahre nun für das 21. Jahrhundert neu gedacht, dabei kamen E-Gitarre und ein elektrisch verstärktes Streichquartett zur Instrumentierung hinzu. Die Nouvelle Cuisine Bigband, bestehend aus jungen, energiegeladenen Europäern, dirigiert von Christoph Cech und mit Mantler an der Trompete, nahm diese modifizierten Arrangements 2013 live im Wiener Club Porgy & Bess auf. Das Resultat klingt aufregend gegenwärtig, voll dunkler Grandeur und einem scharfen Sinn für klangliche Möglichkeiten.

Nouvelle Cuisine Big Band
Christoph Cech, conductor
Special guest soloists:
Michael Mantler, trumpet
Bjarne Roupé, guitar
Wolfgang Puschnig, alto saxophone, flute
Harry Sokal, soprano-, tenor saxophone
David Helbock, piano
Bernie Mallinger, violin
Igmar Jenner, violin
Cynthia Liao, viola
Asja Valcic, cello
Manfred Balasch, soprano saxophone, flute
Clemens Salesny, soprano saxophone, clarinet
Wolfgang Puschnig, alto saxophone, flute
Fabian Rucker, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Harry Sokal, soprano-, tenor saxophone
Chris Kronreif, tenor saxophone, flute
Florian Fennes, baritone saxophone
Aneel Soomary, trumpet
Martin Ohrwalder, trumpet
Christoph Walder, french horn
Hans Peter Manser, french horn
Peter Nickel, trombone
Florian Heigl, bass trombone
Alex Rindberger, tuba
David Helbock, piano
Bjarne Roupé, guitar
Peter Herbert, bass
Tibor Kövesdi, bass
Manuel Mayr, bass
Lukas Knöfler, drums

Recorded live August 30 / 31 and September 1, 2013 at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Austria
Engineered by Martin Vetters
Mixed and mastered October and December 2013 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes_les_Fontaines, France
Engineered by Gérard de Haro, Nicolas Baillard
Produced by Michael Mantler

Michael Mantler
is a composer and musician in new jazz and contemporary music. This official home page presents current news, biography, recordings, audio excerpts, scores, performances, collaborating artists, press, and contact information.

Born in Vienna in 1943, Michael Mantler went to the United States in 1962, and after early activities in the New York avant-garde as composer and trumpet player, he formed the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, and eventually WATT, a music production company. He toured and recorded extensively with Carla Bley as well as occasionally with his own live performance projects.

He has recorded many albums for WATT with varying instrumentations and soloists. Appearing infrequently live, he mostly concentrated on composing and recording. He has often worked with texts of contemporary authors (among them most prominently Samuel Beckett) featuring well-known singers from diverse backgrounds of jazz and popular music (including Jack Bruce and Robert Wyatt).

in 1991 he left the United States and returned to Europe. Continuing to cross the borders between jazz and contemporary classical music with his distinct instrumental and vocal compositions, he recorded new albums, now for ECM Records, including "sort-of" an opera, pieces for chamber ensembles, a large work for full symphony orchestra, suites of songs with words by Giuseppe Ungaretti and Paul Auster, a series of instrumental solo concertos and a collection of guitar/piano duets. His latest recording, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update, was released in 2014.

Comment c'est (How It Is) - a song cycle for voice and chamber orchestra, featuring Himiko Paganotti, will be released by ECM Records during November 2017.

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