Randy Brecker is back in LEAD Large Jazz Ensemble style w/ Mats Holmquist and his big writing - with UMO Jazz Orchestra

Randy Brecker has been shaping the sound of music for decades. His performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, George Benson and Parliament-Funkadelics to two Grammy winners on Summit & MAMA Records.

These arrangements all have little (and not so little) twists and turns that keep you on your toes at all times. There are 3 Chick Corea tunes, 'Crystal Silence', 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'Windows' masterfully re-worked by Mats, Two Mats 'impressions' or minimalistic versions of so-called 'Standards' 'Stella By Starlight' (we both have daughter named Stella by the way), and 'All the Things you Are' which are re-imagined with delightful results, the beautiful Ray Evans- Jay Livingston ballad 'Never Let Me Go' and then three Mats original compositions: 'One Million Circumstances', 'Always Young' and 'Summer and Winter' each quite challenging in their own way.

I think you'll really enjoy this CD there are absolutely no dull moments, you are going to be taken on the ride of a lifetime, so enjoy it and let me know when you come back to Earth!

Randy Brecker

This CD features 3 compositions and one arrangement written in the late eighties; 'One Million Circumstances', 'Summer and Winter', 'Always Young', 'Never Let Me Go' - three arrangements of Chick Corea compositions; 'Windows', 'Crystal Silence', 'Humpty Dumpty' -and 2 new re-compositions based on famous standards; 'My Stella' (Stellla by Starlight') and 'All My Things' ('All the Things You Are'). In other words three different periods are represented; late eighties, beginning of the 2000s (Chick Corea) and the present (re-composition of standards).

UMO Jazz Orchestra is the only professional orchestra in Finland specialised in jazz and new rhythm-oriented music. The big band of 16 musicians plays about 80 concerts every year in Finland and abroad. The orchestra plays a diverse range of modern music that is on the pulse of the times.

Track Listing

• One Million Circumstances
• Summer and Winter
• Never Let Me Go
• Windows
• All My Things
• Crystal Silence
• Humpty Dumpty
• My Stella
• Always Young

Additional Details

Label: MAMA Records

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 75:00 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 08/10/18

UPC: 734956105624