crescendo26: GegenTöne - Counter-Tones
Quietude – Big Band of the Jazz Institute Berlin – crescendo
The evening will feature the world premiere of Thorsten Wollmann's Concerto for Trumpet/Flugelhorn & Big Band, in which Bastian Stein, Professor of Jazz Trumpet and Ensemble at the JIB, will perform as a soloist. The programme will also include works by Bill Holman and Sammy Nestico.
The JIB – Jazz Institut Berlin – has been a fixture in the crescendo programme for years and always offers new and varied concerts. This year's programme focuses on arrangements by Thad Jones, whose eponymous piece Quietude seems to suggest the opposite of what is expected at a big band evening. In Quietude, Jones uses the potential of the big band not for sonic power, but for nuance. Muted trumpets, warm saxophone sections and finely graded dynamics create a calm atmosphere without ever becoming sentimental. Jones himself was a brilliant trumpeter and arranger in the middle of the 20th century. century and played for many years in the Count Basie Orchestra, before co-founding the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1966. This new era of modern big band jazz was launched at the New York jazz club Village Vanguard. The evening will feature the world premiere of Thorsten Wollmann's Concerto for Trumpet/Flugelhorn & Bigband, in which Bastian Stein, Professor of Jazz Trumpet and Ensemble at the JIB, will perform as a soloist. The programme will also include works by Bill Holman and Sammy Nestico.
Big Band of the Jazz Institute Berlin / Bastian Stein, trumpet/flugelhorn / Thorsten Wollmann, director
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