Release Date: 30 April 2021
Label: OA2 Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805552218220
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Los Angeles-based composer/arranger/orchestrator Jeremy Levy has co-led the Budman/Levy Orchestra since 2007, played lead trombone with the Brian Setzer Orchestra, and has been involved in the upper reaches of the film, TV and video game music industry for well over a decade. Looking to create an ambitious project for his own jazz orchestra, Levy was inspired to adapt Gustav Holst's symphonic masterpiece while attending a performance at the Hollywood Bowl in 2017. With its harmony straddling romantic and jazz languages while its massive scale lent inspiration for the largest of film orchestrations over the decades, the suite provided Levy with sweeping and dynamic materials to develop. In the hands of his elite colleagues from the LA studio and jazz scenes, Levy's innovative arrangements are broad, bold and swinging.
"...contemporary big band music at its best." - ALL ABOUT JAZZ
"Levy is fearless as an arranger…" - AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
Tracklisting
Ben Markley Big Band & Ari Hoenig
Wil Swindler's Elevenet
George Cotsirilos Quartet
Charlie Porter, Nick Biello, Orrin Evans, Mike Moreno, David Wong, Damian Erskine, Behn Gillece & Kenneth Salters
Gregory Dudzienski Quartet
Stephen Jones & Ben Haugland
Charlie Apicella & Iron City meet The Griots Speak
Mason Razavi
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols
Orlando le Fleming
Stan Getz
Allegra Levy
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
Stephen Grew
