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| MPS // Pt.1: A Month Of Brass - Barney Wilen, Jiggs Whigham, Lucky Thompson Dear Media Partners, the releases of this month got a focus on brass frontmen. Especially the Barney Wilen record looks very interesting and has a quirky story behind it. Check them out: Barney Wilen – Auto Jazz – Tragic Destiny Of Lorenzo Bandini At 21 French tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen achieved instant fame when he played with Miles Davis' group on the sound track to the Louis Malle film noir classic Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows). Today the album is considered one of Miles' masterpieces. Wilen also performed with Art Blakey on the soundtrack to Roger Vadim's Les Liaisons Dangereuses. In the following years he sampled music styles ranging from the Avant-garde to fusion on into world music. A devoted Formula One fan, Wilen journeyed to the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix intending to tape-record the race, but when famed Italian driver Lorenzo Bandini suffered a horrific crash during the race and died of his injuries a few days later, Wilen decided to compose a piece honoring Bandini by integrating the audio tape into the composition. Originally conceived as a multimedia event, it was premiered at the Musée d'Arte Moderne in Paris after which Wilen was invited to perform his work at Manhattan's New York University in front of an audience that included Rauschenberg, Warhol, and Ginsberg. Jiggs Whigham – Values Born in Cleveland Ohio in 1943, Jiggs Whigham began playing professionally at 17; by the age of 20 he occupied the first trombone chair with Stan Kenton, moved onto Maynard Ferguson's band, and then to Cologne Germany in 1965 where he immediately found work with Kurt Edelhagen's popular big band. Jiggs went on to become an international name, both as a player and as an educator – his playing credits read like a telephone book of jazz greats from Cannonball Adderley to Joe Zawinul. The crack quartet on this 1971 album includes the Swiss jazz pioneer, pianist George Gruntz and the quality bass and drums of Austrian great J. A. Rettenbacher and American Tony Inzalaco. Lucky Thompson – A Lucky Songbook In Europe An important transitional figure, Afro-American tenor/soprano saxophonist Lucky Thompson "connected the swing era to the more cerebral and complex bebop style. His sophisticated approach to the tenor saxophone built off that of Don Byas and Coleman Hawkins (NY Times). Thompson recorded with the likes of Bird, Miles, and Monk, and had a slew of albums under his own name. The accompanying hand-picked musicians includes organist Ingfried Hoffmann, known for his work with German star Klaus Doldinger, and percussionist/vibraphonist Sadi, who worked with Django Reinhardt, Don Byas, and Martial Solal. They fit hand-in-glove with Lucky's musical conception. This1969 gem sparkles with five Thompson compositions and two standards. Release Date: July 1st, 2016 (2 months exclusively on iTunes. Subsequently available on all common download services.) MPS Records New Digital Releases Digital Mastered for iTunes Distribution: Edel:Kultur/ Kontor New Media - Mastered for iTunes - 24-bit-Transfer from original master tapes - produced by Dirk Sommer write your comments about the article :: © 2016 Jazz News :: home page |