Graettinger - Vol. 2, live at the Paradiso

EBONY BAND AMSTERDAM
WERNER HERBERS

Graettinger

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Robert Frederick Graettinger (1923 - 1957) composer/arranger Until shortly Robert Graettinger was known only to a small circle of jazz enthusiasts. His composition, 'City of Glass', recorded on the initiative of Stan Kenton in 1951, evoked disconcerted responses from 'chaos' to 'this isn't jazz' to 'Wagnerian pretentiousness'. Graettinger began his career as an alto saxophonist with several lesserknown bands in California, but he soon put his sax away because, as he said to one of his friends, "I have more to say than I can express with just one instrument". He studied composition for a brief period at the Westlake School of Music in Los Angeles. At the age of eighteen, he showed one of his compositions to Stan Kenton, who encouraged him to continue. In 1947, Kenton added Graettinger's 'Thermopylae' to the band's repertoire. From that time onward, Graettinger, with Pete Rugolo and Bill Russo, was one of the staff arrangers for Kenton's orchestra, which had a reputation for being 'progressive'. Stan Kenton's name may have lost most of its luster among today's jazz aficionados; nevertheless, one of the most important achievements of his career is that he gave the youthful Robert Graettinger a chance to compose pieces, to make arrangements of standards, and to be part of the process when Kenton made recordings of avant-garde pieces with his orchestra. Pete Rugolo and Bill Russo composed big band pieces in the jazz tradition; Graettinger, in contrast, tried to incorporate developments from modern classical music into the big band idiom.

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Main artist	EBONY BAND AMSTERDAM WERNER HERBERS
Composer	Graettinger
Inlay	R.F. Graettinger (vol. 2) Molshoaro (1947/48); Beachcomber (1948); Afternoon (1948); Loverman (1948); I only have eyes for you (1948); Too marvellous for words (1948); Irresistable you (1948); Condolence (1948); Untitled Original (unfinished 1948?); ‘Suite for Stringtrio and Windquartet’ (1953-57); Transparency (1952); Untitled Original (Two in One 1952); Autumn in New York (1948); Fine & Dandy (1948); I’m in the mood for love (1948); Everything happens to me (1948); Untitled Original (1952); Untitled Original (1952); Untitled Original (In three Tempi 1948?) Channel Crossing
Biography	The Ebony Band was founded in 1990 by Werner Herbers, solo oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. For many years he was one of the artistic directors of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. The Ebony Band is concerned with the performance of modern, unusual, and adventurous music, primarily from the first half of this century. Attention is devoted primarily to the work of less well-known composers worthy of (re)discovery. The Ebony Band devoted several programs to German music at the time of the Weimar republic (degenerated music). A program was also given during the 1991 Holland Festival with composers who were involved in the Spanish Civil War. Other programs included Leonard Bernstein and Friends, Degenerated influences on Jazz and Unknown Russians in the Twenties. The core of the Ebony Band consists of musicians from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In the 1993 Holland Festival, the Ebony Band performed music by Robert Graettinger, the legendary arranger for the Stan Kenton band; a live recording of this concert has been issued (City of Glass, CCS 6394 Channel Crossing).
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Quotes	(...) Uitvoeringsniveau ligt hoog. De grote verrassing is de sopraan Claron McFadden die zich met omfloerste stem en scherpe timing ontpopt tot een zwoele jazzzangeres van kaliber. Luister, March 1999
Format	Normal PCM CD
Running time	76:51:00
Year of release	1998
Number of cd's	1

Number of cd's:

Year of release:

1998

Running time:

76:51:00

Quotes:

(...) Uitvoeringsniveau ligt hoog. De grote verrassing is de sopraan Claron McFadden die zich met omfloerste stem en scherpe timing ontpopt tot een zwoele jazzzangeres van kaliber.

Luister, March 1999

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