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GERALD WILSON ORCHESTRA
"Detroit"
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The veteran bandleader Gerald Wilson, perhaps the greatest living jazz
composer of today, pays tribute to the musical history of Detroit with
his orchestra featuring an all-star lineup including Jon Faddis, Antonio
Hart, Ronnie Cuber, Renee Rosnes, Sean Jones and Hubert Laws.
To commemorate its 30th anniversary, the Detroit International Jazz Festival
called on Gerald Wilson, the pre-eminent jazz orchestra composer and
bandleader, to write a suite for Detroit. He recorded the piece with both his Los
Angeles and New York orchestras. He has not only maintained his L.A. band for
many decades, but Wilson’s New York branch convenes when he travels eastward
for concerts, festivals and recording dates. He has the best of both coasts for this
album, including trumpeters Jon Faddis, Bobby Rodriguez and Jimmy
Owens; trombonists Dennis Wilson, Luis Bonilla and Doug Purviance;
saxophonists Steve Wilson, Kamasi Washington, Antonio Hart, Jackie
Kelso and Ronnie Cuber; pianists Brian O’Rourke and Renee Rosnes;
bassists Trey Henry, Peter Washington and Todd Coolman; drummers Mel
Lee and Lewis Nash. Guest soloists are flute master Hubert Laws, trumpeter
Sean Jones and guitarist Anthony Wilson.
Wilson has written a musical sonnet to the city, where he spent five very
important formative years in the late 1930s. Detroit’s progressive social policies
made a huge impression on the young Wilson. “The city itself showed me so
much,” Wilson insists. “All of the schools were integrated; so was the musician’s
union. I had only known segregation before.”
“Gerald Wilson has been and remains a marvel, and Detroit warrants a place among his finest works for big band”
Jack Bowers - All About Jazz.com
Track Listing:
1. Blues On Belle Isle,
2. Cass Tech,
3. Detroit,
4. Miss Gretchen,
5. Before Motown,
6. Detroit River,
7. Everywhere,
8. Aram
Personnel:
Gerald Wilson: composer, arranger, conductor. Los Angeles Band—Ron Barrows, Bobby Rodriguez, Jeff Kaye, Rick Baptist, Winston Byrd: trumpet; Jackie Kelso: alto, soprano sax; Randall Willis: alto sax, flute; Carl Randall, Kamasi Washington: tenor sax; Terry Landry: baritone sax; Eric Jorgensen, Les Benedict, Mike Wimberly, Shaunte Palmer: trombone; Yvette Devereaux: violin; Brian O'Rourke: piano; Trey Henry: bass; Mel Lee: drums. Guest artists —Sean Jones: trumpet, flugelhorn; Anthony Wilson: guitar. New York Band—Jon Faddis, Frank Greene, Sean Jones, Jimmy Owens, Terell Stafford: trumpet, flugelhorn; Steve Wilson, Antonio Hart: alto, soprano sax, flute; Ron Blake, Kamasi Washington: tenor sax; Ronnie Cuber: baritone sax; Dennis Wilson, Luis Bonilla, Jay Ashby: trombone; Douglas Purviance: bass trombone; Renee Rosnes: piano; Peter Washington, Todd Coolman: bass; Lewis Nash: drums. Guest artist—Hubert Laws: flute. |
