Showing posts with label Louise Baranger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louise Baranger. Show all posts

Monday, November 20, 2017

Louise Baranger - Louise Baranger Plays The Great American Groove Book

Size: 136,0 MB
Time: 57:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz, Pop, Rock
Art: Front

01. Got To Give It Up (4:59)
02. Camaro Willy (4:48)
03. Soul Bossa Nova (3:40)
04. Higher Ground (5:04)
05. Soulful Grazing (5:35)
06. Love Potion No. 9 (4:06)
07. The Sidewinder (4:34)
08. Ain't No Sunshine (5:19)
09. Take Me To The River (4:32)
10. Never Can Say Goodbye (4:51)
11. Inner City Blues (5:21)
12. With You I'm Born Again (4:56)

Born in Hollywood, CA, Louise Baranger studied trumpet with Harold "Pappy" Mitchell and Uan Rasey, the former first trumpets at the MGM Studios, as well as jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew and legendary William Vacchiano of the New York Philharmonic.

In 1982 Harry James asked her to join his band, and she remained until Harry’s death in 1983. She spent the next few years playing lead trumpet in the Las Vegas production of Sugar as well as freelancing in Los Angeles and working with such big bands as Nelson Riddle, Jack Wilson and Ray Anthony.

Her many television credits include appearances on Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, A PBS tribute to Harry James, Dallas, Falcon Crest, The Flash, KMEX Children’s Telethon, Fox Studios TV Logo, Barry Manilow’s Big Fun On Swing Street (with Gerry Mulligan, Carmen McRae and Stanley Clarke), The Bobby Vinton Show, Kid’s Day at Walt Disney World, and The World Music Awards. Film credits include Blake Edwards’ Mickey and Maude, Mark Rydell’s For The Boys, and Dennis Dugan’s Brain Donors.

Louise has played on Albums and videos with Bobby Womack, Joe Cocker, Holly Near, the Stan Kenton Alumni Tribute Orchestra, the Ladd McIntosh Big Band and dozens of jingles.

In live performance, Louise has toured the world and backed the talents of Bobby Womack, Dionne Warwick, Steve Allen, Buddy Greco, Carol Lawrence, George Burns, Clark Terry, Joan Rivers, Milton Berle, Candice Bergen, Sammy Davis, Jr., the Fifth Dimension, and a host of others.

On Broadway she has worked as a substitute player on Carousel, Les Miserables, and 42nd Street, as well as performed at Carnegie Hall with John Pizzarelli, Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops.

As a soloist Louise has been featured with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Jazz Ensamble de Santa Fe (Argentina), Leipzig and Mannheim Big Bands (Germany), the Athens Symphony, and Macon Symphony.

As a leader her nine piece "little big band" has played at the 1999 Emmy Awards, the Millennium New Year’s Eve Celebration at Boston’s Symphony Hall, and jazz concerts featuring trombone great Carl Fontana, in addition to many private events and fund raisers.

Louise’s first CD, Trumpeter’s Prayer (Summit Records DCD222), features Arturo Sandoval, Frank Sinatra Jr., Carl Fontana and Steve Allen. A newly recorded CD, The Great American Groove Book will be released in 2017.

In 2005 Louise was a featured soloist at the Stars and Stripes Presidential Inaugural Ball in Washington, DC. She has also played for President Bill Clinton.

Louise’s currently plays with the brass quintet, Revolutionary Brass and, along with her husband Fred Tregaskis performs a wine tasting/music show for fundraisers and other private events. She also performs with her nine-piece little big band and the Groove Book Band, a jazzy tribute to the music of Motown.

She was a senior faculty member at the Litchfield Jazz Camp from 2005-2012 and has given master classes in Japan, Argentina, Peru, Germany, and across the U.S. As a private teacher many of her students have held principal chairs in CT regional and All-State honor bands, both jazz and classical.

Plays The Great American Groove Book

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Louise Baranger Jazz Band - Trumpeter's Prayer

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:55
Size: 137.2 MB
Styles: Big band, Trumpet jazz
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[2:17] 1. Well Git It!
[3:44] 2. Buttercup
[4:38] 3. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
[2:59] 4. All The Things You Are
[5:05] 5. I Only Want Some
[6:23] 6. Mood Swings
[3:54] 7. Alexander's Ragtime Band
[4:23] 8. Hip Hep Hop
[4:30] 9. Chitlins
[3:32] 10. The Way She Makes Me Feel
[4:29] 11. Not Tonight I Have A Headache
[5:05] 12. If You Remember Me
[2:52] 13. Girl Meets Horn
[3:02] 14. A Turmpeter's Prayer
[2:55] 15. A Royal Firework

Louise Baranger’s economy–sized big band (basically four trumpets including her own, three saxophones, one trombone and rhythm) is at its best when unencumbered by guest artists, a string section or other commercially–oriented considerations. While such moments are too infrequent on Trumpeter’s Prayer, Baranger’s bandleading debut, when they do arrive (as on “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “Chitlins,” “A Royal Firework,” for example) they are almost persuasive enough to redeem the others. Baranger is an excellent player with a pristine tone and admirable technique, as she shows on the title selection (one of several on which strings are used to amplify the core ensemble) and her many other appearances, all uncredited. The band, when given room to maneuver, is able–bodied and industrious. Saxophonists Don Shelton (“Mood Swings,” “Firework”) and Steve Wilkerson (“Ragtime Band”), trombonists Bob McChesney (“Hip Hep Hop”) and Alex Iles (“Ragtime Band”), flugel Warren Luening (Neal Hefti’s “Buttercup”) and pianist Linda Martinez (“Firework,” “Not Tonight, I Have a Headache”) spearhead a corps of topnotch soloists. Among the guests, Tom Kubis (who arranged seven of the 15 selections) unlimbers his keen–edged soprano while trombonist Carl Fontana trades rapid–fire salvos with Baranger on Steve Allen’s “Chitlins” (which Allen introduces), but Baranger and guest Arturo Sandoval are unable to ignite any sparks on Sy Oliver’s “Well, Git It!” (which suffers greatly in comparison to Tommy Dorsey’s original version). There are two nondescript vocals by Frank Sinatra Jr. (“I Only Want Some,” “The Way She Makes Me Feel”), another by Gisele Jackson (“I Didn’t Know What Time It Was”). “Headache” is Kubis’s contemporary look at Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood,” while “Firework” is Georg Friedrich Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks” updated by Don Gillis. Baranger has three handsome showcases in a row for her trumpet, David Raksin’s “If You Remember Me,” Duke Ellington’s “Girl Meets Horn” and Tutti Camarata’s “Trumpeter’s Prayer,” leading to the explosive finale. A sometimes admirable session that would have been enhanced by more straight–ahead swinging and fewer detours. ~Jack Bowers

Trumpeter's Prayer