Don Sebesky - Works for Jazz Soloists and Symphony Orchestra

Don Sebesky is one of the most respected composer-arrangers in music today.

His sensitivity and versatility have enabled him to produce an enormous body of work, wide in scope, ranging from jazz to symphonic and even pop

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Don Sebesky - Three Works for Jazz Soloists and Symphony Orchestra.

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When Don Sebesky recorded Three Works for Jazz Soloists and Symphony Orchestra, the idea of combining jazz and European classical music was hardly new.

Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and others were being influenced by classical music back in the 1920s, and the 1950s found everyone from the Modern Jazz Quartet and Gunther Schuller to Gil Evans and Jimmy Giuffre blending jazz and classical.

Nonetheless, jazz-classical fusion was an idea that still had a lot of possibilities, and Sebesky explores some of them on this chance-taking project.

This album finds Sebesky uniting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with such jazzmen as guitarist Joe Beck, trumpeter Jon Faddis, and trombonist Bob Brookmeyer.

The album underscores Sebesky's appreciation of classical greats as Bach, Stravinsky, and Bartok, yet the solos are essentially jazz solos.

Three Works is an album that is interesting and worth checking out, and Sebesky deserves credit for having the guts to take some risks, especially when you consider how predictable and unadventurous so many of the "young lions" who emerged in the 1980s and 1990s turned out to be.

Musicians
– Harry Rabinowitz / directed by, [orchestra]
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / orchestra
– Richard Davis / bass, soloist
– Jimmy Madison / drums, soloist
– Joe Beck / guitar, soloist
– Don Sebesky / piano, soloist
- Gordon Beck / piano, soloist
– Alex Foster / saxophone, soloist
– Bob Brookmeyer / trombone, soloist
– Jon Faddis / trumpet, flugelhorn, soloist