USA: Randy Brecker & Mats Holmquist with UMO Jazz Orchestra-Together (Summit 2018)

“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. Randy Brecker is back in LEAD Large Jazz Ensemble form w/ Mats Holmquist’s incredible writing and arranging – with UMO Jazz Orchestra! This CD features three 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 two 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.
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