Norrbotten Big Band - Future North

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:10
Size: 158,4 MB
Art: Front

(8:46)  1. Future North Suite-Anticipating Sweden
(8:15)  2. Future North Suite-Discovering Norrbotten
(5:48)  3. Future North Suite-Future North
(6:23)  4. Passing Giants
(9:47)  5. Noogaloo
(6:53)  6. Mention The Extension
(6:42)  7. Walking Iris
(6:42)  8. Twist And Out
(9:49)  9. Missed The Ballgame Blues

This is a tour de force of big band writing and playing. American trumpeter Tim Hagans, artistic director of the Lulea, Sweden-based band, composed and arranged the music. As a writer, he has roots in Ernie Wilkins, Thad Jones, and the Gil Evans-Miles Davis collaborations. (Twenty or so years ago, Hagans performed in Scandinavian bands led by Jones or Wilkins.) The charts are rhythmic, intricate, and kaleidoscopic. Hagans’ three-part “Future North Suite” begins with pedal-tone bass and rockish drums. After a punchy horn unison, the band dissolves into a spacey, Bitches Brew-like segment. There’s a collective ad-lib by the full band and a soprano saxophone solo by Hakan Brostrom. The closing ensemble suggests Thad. This is an example of Hagans’ ability to mix and match. On “Waking Iris” he works Birth of the Cool voicings into the chart, which, again, climaxes in a Thaddian style. The band is impeccable, its chops showing in tricky convoluted counterpoint (e.g., “Twist & Out”) as well as in simpler tutti passages where it breathes as one. Hagans solos frequently-the composer dancing through his creation. The Swedish soloists are hip and in tune with the moods of his charts. ~ Owen Cordle https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/norrbotten-big-band-future-north/

Norrbotten Big Band: Tim Hagans (arranger, conductor, trumpet); Hakan Brostrom (alto & soprano saxophones); Jan Thelin (alto saxophone, bass clarinet); Mats Garberg (tenor saxophone, flute); Bangt Ek (tenor saxophone); Per Moberg (baritone saxophone, flute); Bo Strandberg, Dan Johansson, Magnus Ekholm, Tapio Maunuvaara (trumpet, flugelhorn); P-O Svanstrom, Magnus Puls, Peter Dahlgren (trombone); Bjorn Hangsel (bass trombone); Hans Delander (piano, Fender Rhodes); Christian Spering (bass); Jukkis Uotila (drums); Magnus Persson (percussion, didgeridoo).

Future North

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