Ken Schaphorst Big Band - Making Lunch

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 45:10

Size: 103.4 MB

Styles: Big band

Year: 1994

Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Making Lunch

[5:04] 2. Promise

[5:25] 3. Intimation

[9:50] 4. Stolen Moments

[4:12] 5. Gospel Garden

[8:17] 6. Chant

[4:58] 7. The Lashing Of Tongues

[4:21] 8. Prayer

The 18-piece Ken Schaphorst Big Band, created in 1988, has been hailed by the Boston Phoenix as "the most interesting and contemporary large ensemble to come out of Boston in recent years." W. Royal Stokes writes in Jazz Times that band's 1989 debut recording, Ken Schaphorst Big Band: Making Lunch, "combines the sophisticated and eclectic writing of the leader and the wonderfully loose playing of, for these ears, 18 of Boston's finest improvisers." About the Ken Schaphorst Big Band's follow-up recording, Ken Schaphorst Big Band: After Blue, released on the Accurate Recordings label in 1991, Gene Santoro writes in Pulse! that Schaphorst "cannily exploits the colors of his 18-piece group with a ferocious energy and an offbeat ear that will turn you on yours-just as Mingus meant to do." When the Moon Jumps, featuring the 10-piece Ken Schaphorst Ensemble, was released on ccurate Records in 1994. The recording that Jazz Times calls "one of the most excitingly provocative large ensemble ventures in years" received four stars from Down Beat magazine and features the three-movement Concerto for John Medeski, commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1991.

Jay Bradford (alto sax); John Carlson (trumpet, flugelhorn); John Dirac (guitar); Dave Finucane (tenor sax); Andy Gravish (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jim Harp (drums); Curtis Hasselbring (trombone); Hiro Honshuku (flute); Jerry Leake (percussion); Dmitri Matheny (trumpet, flugelhorn); Donny McCaslin (tenor sax); John Medeski (piano); Jim O'Dell (tuba); Mark Ortwein (baritone sax, bassoon); Josh Roseman (trombone); Mark Taylor (French horn); Dave Valdez (alto sax); Wesley Wirth (bass)

Making Lunch

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