London Jazz Composers Orchestra/Barry Guy/Irene Schweizer - Radio Rondo/Schaffhausen Concert
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Barry Guy:director, bass /
Irène Schweizer: piano /
Evan Parker: reeds /
Mats Gustafsson: reeds /
Trevor Watts: reeds /
Simon Picard: reeds /
Pete McPhail: reeds /
Conrad Bauer: tmb /
Johannes Bauer: tmb /
Alan Tomlinson: tmb /
Henry Lowther: tpt /
Herb Robertson: tpt /
Rich Laughlin: tpt /
Per Åke Holmlander, tuba /
Phil Wachsmann: violin /
Barre Phillips: bass /
Paul Lytton: percussion
"After her riveting prelude-like solo, Schweizer applied her pan-stylistic approach to Guy’s challenging, playerempowering score. Though Guy retained the form’s traditional utility as a soloist’s showcase on “Radio Rondo,” he expanded the scope of the rondo’s back and forth to feature Schweizer in several subgroupings – a pummeling quintet passage with Guy, bassist Barre Phillips, and drummers Paul Lytton and Lucas Niggli – as well as encounters with the full force of the 17-piece contingent. In the later, Guy cued single-note stabs, flurried textures and a host of other events from parts of the orchestra, spiking the power of the notaded materials. For all of the piece’s intensity, Guy slipped beautiful passages – like the plaintive melody stated by tenor saxophonist Simon Picard – into the piece. A magisterial theme set up the piece’s final tutti blast.”-
Downbeat, September 2008
Lucas Niggli: percussion
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