Trumpet Madness—Order Your CD Now!
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Aardvark's
latest CD recording Trumpet Madness will be given its international
release this spring and a CD release concert celebration at MIT on April 30
[see story above on Annual MIT Spring Concert]. Released on the prestigious
London-based LEO Records label (long recognized for its commitment to challenging
postmodern music), this
is the band's eighth CD.
Three of these have been released on the Leo Lab Records label.
Trumpet Madness features several wonderful trumpeters, as well as the entire Aardvark Orchestra in both solo and collective improvisational roles. Among the trumpeters are music director Mark Harvey, soloing on Taylor Ho Bynum's Concerto for Orchestra and Improviser, Berlin-based trumpeter Rajesh Mehta, featured on Harvey's Spirals which was written especially for Mehta and his percussion collaborator Paul Lovens, and trumpeters Harvey, Ho Bynum, Mehta, Greg Kelley, and Jeanne Snodgrass on the title tune Trumpet Madness, an improvisational tour de force. K.C. Dunbar, Jimmy Leach, and Eric Dahlman round out our trumpetistic panorama as they are heard to advantage on several other tracks on the recording.
All selections were recorded in live performance, six of the seven cuts are world premieres, and throughout, they showcase the band's unique approach to blending spontaneous creation within complex structures. While there is a trumpet concept at work here, listeners will soon discover that Trumpet Madness leads inevitably and delightfully to total Aardvark madcap music-making of the highest order. To paraphrase American painter Stuart Davis, who was speaking of the influence of Guillaume Dufay's music on his abstractionist style, "trumpets used like voices/ real crazy syncopation."
Leo
Records Description:
This
is the fourth CD in Leo Records catalogue by The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra led
by the composer, arranger, conductor and trumpeter Mark Harvey. Trumpet Madness
displays the unique and disparate sounds of several wonderful trumpeters woven
into the fabric of multi-stylistic orchestral compositions. Recorded in live
performance, these compositions present the band's commitment to spontaneous
creation within complex structures. Mark Harvey's approach to blending the
solo, collective, and conducted improvisation of 28 [sic] talented players
has been developed to a high level of intuitive and expressive virtuosity.
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| 1. Flexology |
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| 2. JB's Dreamtime |
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| 3. Choices For Orchestra And Improviser |
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| 4. Morph |
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| 5. Trumpet Madness |
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| 6. Spirals |
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| 7. Voices Like Trumpets |
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