Music for Symphony & Jazz Band

• Artist: Franco Ambrosetti
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• Release Date: 1990
• Total Time: 51:02
• Type: Instrumental
• Genre: Jazz

Review

This CD is a classic, one of the all-time best examples of third stream music (a combination of jazz and classical music). Trumpeter/flügelhornist Franco Ambrosetti's sextet is joined by the NDR Radio Orchestra Hannover, and together they perform nine of Daniel Schnyder's very complex and continually surprising arrangements of six standards, two of his originals, and Ambrosetti's "Close Encounter." The leader, altoist Greg Osby, and Schnyder himself on soprano have some superior solos, but it is the unusual charts that take honors; the transformations of Duke Ellington's "C Jam Blues" and Thelonious Monk's "Well You Needn't" are among the many high points of this essential set. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
C Jam Blues	Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington	Franco Ambrosetti	(5:34)
Night and Day	Cole Porter	Franco Ambrosetti	(6:13)
The Grave	Daniel Schnyder	Franco Ambrosetti	(6:03)
Well, You Needn't	Thelonious Monk	Franco Ambrosetti	(7:03)
Peace	Horace Silver	Franco Ambrosetti	(4:03)
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes	Buddy Bernier, Jerry Brainin	Franco Ambrosetti	(6:27)
Close Encounter	Franco Ambrosetti	Franco Ambrosetti	(4:51)
Inside the Dome	Daniel Schnyder	Franco Ambrosetti	(6:31)
Manteca	Chano Pozo, Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie	Franco Ambrosetti	(4:17)

Credits

Ron Kurz (Mixing), Daniel Schnyder (Composer), Ed Schuller (Bass), Elisabeth Winckelmann (Design), Daniel Schnyder (Sax (Soprano)), Greg Osby (Sax (Alto)), Vladislav Sendecki (Piano), Patrick Hinely (Photography), Ron Kurz (Engineer), Sandra Eisner (Photography), The NDR-Radio Orchestra Hannover (Multi Instruments), Franco Ambrosetti (Trumpet), Bjorn Brigsne (Engineer), Franco Ambrosetti (Liner Notes), Simon Nabatov (Piano), Dieter Glawischnig (Director), Franco Ambrosetti (Flugelhorn), Jurgen Schonwiese (Photography), Lajos Keresztes (Photography), Wladislaw Sendecki (Piano), Alfredo Golino (Drums)