Cat No:
MAC1175
Release Date: 06 November 2020
Label: Mack Avenue
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 673203117525
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Description
As a tight, longstanding jazz ensemble, Yellowjackets has explored a universe all its own of electro-acoustic soundscapes in its nearly four-decade history. For 'Jackets XL', its 25th album and fourth for Mack Avenue, the band continues to stretch and reinvent itself with an exciting, full-bodied collaboration with the superb WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany.Since the band's eponymous 1981 debut album, Yellowjackets has consistently forged ahead with innovative and challenging artistic statements. 'Jackets XL' continues this fine body of work. The project combines the shapeshifting, multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning quartet with the renowned big band, re-imagining well-known band originals with dynamic new arrangements that feature twists and turns, textures and colors, moving harmonies and bold solos.
"This band has never been one to rest on its laurels," says tenor saxophonist/EWI player Bob Mintzer, a Yellowjacket since 1990 and the WDR Big Band principal conductor since 2016. "The Yellowjackets are very adept at reinventing. The four of us are the most adaptable musicians I've ever worked with. Any setting, any style, we know we can do it. As for the WDR, they're one of the best large jazz ensembles in the world. I knew the two groups would make for a nice marriage." The band also comprises founder, keyboardist Russell Ferrante, drummer Will Kennedy and electric bassist Dane Alderson in his third recording for the group.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Downtown
- 2. Dewey
- 3. Mile High
- 4. The Red Sea
- 5. Even Song
- 6. One Day
- 7. Tokyo Tale
- 8. Imperial Strut
- 9. Coherence
- 10. Revelation
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Parallel Motion
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