Release Date: 15 January 2016
Label: Mack Avenue
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 673203110625
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
The members of the Mack Avenue SuperBand represent a diverse range of generations and styles. It offers a rare opportunity, for instance, to hear NEA Jazz Master Gary Burton engage with a group of younger players with more of a hard-bop focus than he usually encounters in his own more modern-leaning bands.
"This is definitely not my normal zone," he admits with a chuckle. "But this is the music I grew up playing. I was a bebop guy in my teens and twenties - that was the standard jazz of the day. Playing straight-ahead is something I hadn't done much for a while, so I was looking forward to a relaxing, fun, jam session kind of setting where I didn't have to read a million notes and play a lot of complex music. In spite of that, some of the music ended up being fairly complicated and challenging."
Burton will be able to further enjoy that opportunity in early 2016, as the Mack Avenue SuperBand heads out on tour, affording audiences outside Detroit the opportunity to share the invigorating experience of witnessing the ensemble live on tour for the first time in its history. The line-up will be a slight variation on the one recorded at the 2015 festival, with Sean Jones returning to the trumpet and flugelhorn chair. Kirk Whalum will join the band for select West Coast performances.
Tracklisting
Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer
Veronica Swift
Christian McBride Big Band
Various Artists
Oscar Peterson
Connie Han
Oscar Peterson
Yellowjackets
Mack Avenue SuperBand
Mack Avenue SuperBand
Mack Avenue SuperBand
