Mike Gibbs, The NDR Bigband & Norma Winstone
Release Date: 31 October 2011
Label: Fuzzy Moon Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5065001308031
Description
A breathtakingly beautiful and much overdue collaboration between jazz luminaries Mike Gibbs and Grammy nominee Norma Winstone aided and abetted by the equally legendary NDR Bigband.
A breathtakingly beautiful and wonderfully vibrant album of eclectic and "not-so-standard standards", drawing on what have become universally popular songs by Joni Mitchell, Cole Porter, Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Randy Newman, Fats Waller, Sting, Ellington and Gershwin, arranged and orchestrated by the legendary Mike Gibbs, in his usual unique and inimitable style, featuring the equally unique and inimitable Grammy nominee Norma Winstone, aided and abetted by the world renowned NDR Big Band, in a "not-so-standard" big band setting. Characteristically vibrant arrangements by Mike Gibbs serve to spotlight Norma's wondrous sense of story telling, during which she never fails to elicit moments of pure magic, as the band continues to supply a stimulating and colouristic idyll for her interpretations. The album also contains a deliciously colourful and evocative arrangement of Mike's own "Some Shadows" which includes the transcribed solo of a previously recorded solo by mutual long-term colleague Kenny Wheeler, orchestrated and arranged with such elegance and poise, continually enticing the performers to weave their eternal magic!
Tracklisting
Mike Gibbs, The NDR Bigband & Norma Winstone
Mark Lockheart & The NDR Bigband
Issie Barratt's Interchange
Mark Donlon, Mick Hutton, Gene Calderazzo & Julian Siegel
Issie Barratt & Meinrad Iten Quartet
John Warren
John Warren
Issie Barratt
Peter Vuust & Aarhus Jazz Orchestra
Duke Ellington
Jeremy Rose & The Earshift Orchestra
Duke Ellington
Harry James
Harry James
Doncaster Jazz Alumni
Duke Ellington
