Gerard Presencer & Danish Radio Big Band
Release Date: 02 June 2017
Label: Edition Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5065001530753
Genres: Jazz
Description
Groove Travels is the highly anticipated new album from British trumpeter, arranger and composer Gerard Presencer, featuring the Danish Radio Big Band.. Groove Travels is set to be a defining album both for Gerard and for new Big Band conceptions. This new release is without doubt his most ambitious and well-executed solo recording to date and will happily stand alongside the leading voices in contemporary big band music.
The idea for this album first took root when Gerard moved to Copenhagen to take a trumpet seat in the band. As Gerard explains: ‘It’s taken five or six years for me to get this album together which is great for a project like this, because I got to know everybody, we play together all the time, so the tunes that I’ve chosen are specifically chosen for the musicians that are playing them’.
Over the past 25 years Gerard Presencer has carved out a formidable reputation as one of the most respected trumpeters on the European scene. He exploded onto the international scene, aged 18, when US3 asked him to play the solo part on Blue Note’s Cantaloupe Island (re-imagined as Cantaloop Flip-Fantasia), that became one of the biggest selling jazz records of the 1990s. Since then, he has performed with a who’s who of international jazz artists, and has developed a career as an educator, arranger and composer.
Tracklisting
Finding Ways (Sebastian Rochford)
Fergus McCreadie
Donny McCaslin
Petter Eldh
Nils Petter Molvaer
Frida Touray
Jasper Hoiby
Polar Bear
Women In Jazz
Mauricio Einhorn
Mina Agossi
Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman & Carsten Dahl
Kayla Waters
Doug Raney Quartet
Steve Tibbetts; Marc Anderson; J.T. Bates
Sokratis Sinopoulos; Yann Keerim
