Release Date: 03 April 2020
Label: New Arts International
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805552217025
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Portland-based composer/pianist Ezra Weiss has composed and arranged for many albums, musicals and multi-media events and released six albums as a bandleader over the last 16 years, but had yet to present his own large ensemble recording. "We Limit..." marks that debut while offering a timely, impassioned statement concerning the times we live in, addressed to his young children. Through emotionally expressive compositions performed by a stellar ensemble, with his own narration interspersed between, it's both a loving message passed down from father to children as well as a profound and deeply felt plea for togetherness and empathy.
The brilliant 17-piece big band includes such distinctive soloists as saxophonists John Nastos, Rob Davis, Renato Caranto and Mieke Bruggeman; trumpeters Farnell Newton, Derek Sims and Thomas Barber; trombonists Stan Bock and Jeff Uusitalo; and flutist John Savage. The album was recorded live in the resonant Alberta Abbey, a historic church turned performance space in Portland, Oregon.
Tracklisting
Linos Piano Trio
Duke Ellington
Clemens Gottwald
Ben Markley Big Band & Ari Hoenig
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor, Alois Muhlbacher
Van Baerle Trio
Nino Gvetadze
Joachim Mencel, Steve Cardenas, Scott Colley & Rudy Royston
Let Spin
Paul Dunmall
Selma Savolainen
Sara Colman & Rebecca Nash
Stephen Grew
Martin Archer & Claire McAllister
Jasper Hoiby
Kazuki Yamanaka
