East West: Music for Big Bands by Michael Zilber

Michael Zilber

East West: Music for Big Bands

Price: € 22.95
Format: CD
Label: Origin Records
UPC: 0805558279126
Catnr: ORIGIN 82791
Release date: 06 March 2020
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Label
Origin Records

UPC
0805558279126

Catalogue number
ORIGIN 82791

Release date
06 March 2020

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Composer/Saxophonist Michael Zilber's musical approach has always been a unique mix, bred from myriad activities over the years in New York & Boston in the east, and Vancouver & San Francisco in the west. On East West, that aspect of his being is front and center, along with his delving into writing and arranging for big bands over the last decade. Tackling an ambitious, once-in-a-lifetime project with two big band recording sessions - one in New York, the other in San Francisco - Zilber gathers from his extended music community two groupings of powerful, empathetic musical voices, their collective commitment to support, share and create shining through these 14 tracks. Featured are 8 originals and 6 arrangements of classic songs, including "Joshua," "Fall," "Skylark" and "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." "...one of the best composers and players around anywhere. Period." - Dave Liebman

Der musikalische Ansatz des Komponisten/Saxophonisten Michael Zilber war schon immer eine einzigartige Mischung, die aus unzähligen Aktivitäten im Laufe der Jahre in New York & Boston im Osten und Vancouver & San Francisco im Westen entstanden ist. Dieser Ost-Westen Aspekt seines Wesens ist von zentraler Bedeutung, zusammen mit der Vertiefung im Bereich des Schreibens und Arrangierens von Big Bands in den letzten zehn Jahren. Zilber widmet sich einem ehrgeizigen, einmaligen Projekt mit zwei Big-Band-Aufnahmen - eine in New York, die andere in San Francisco - und versammelt aus seiner erweiterten Musikgemeinde zwei Gruppierungen von kraftvollen, einfühlsamen musikalischen Stimmen, deren gemeinsames Engagement es ist, diese 14 Tracks zu unterstützen, zu teilen und zu erschaffen. Es werden 8 Originale und 6 Arrangements von klassischen Songs präsentiert, darunter "Joshua", "Fall", "Skylark" und "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". "....einer der besten Komponisten und Musiker überhaupt. Punkt." - Dave Liebman

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Michael Zilber (saxophone)

San Francisco Bay Area based saxophonist and composer Michael Zilber is described by NEA Jazz Master David Liebman as 'one of the best players and composers around anywhere. Period!' The Canadian-born ex-New Yorker has 10 albums to his name as a leader or co-leader. He has also performed or recorded with everyone from Liebman to Miroslav Vitous, Mike Clark, Dizzy Gillespie and Bob Berg, to name just a very few. Zilber co-led a band with drumming great Steve Smith for eight years, releasing the top 20 recording Reimagined: Jazz Standards, Volume 1 in 2003. For the past decade, he has teamed up with guitar virtuoso John Stowell, most recently on 2016's Basement Blues, which All About Jazz's Dan McClenaghan calls 'as...

San Francisco Bay Area based saxophonist and composer Michael Zilber is described by NEA Jazz Master David Liebman as "one of the best players and composers around anywhere. Period!" The Canadian-born ex-New Yorker has 10 albums to his name as a leader or co-leader. He has also performed or recorded with everyone from Liebman to Miroslav Vitous, Mike Clark, Dizzy Gillespie and Bob Berg, to name just a very few.
Zilber co-led a band with drumming great Steve Smith for eight years, releasing the top 20 recording Reimagined: Jazz Standards, Volume 1 in 2003. For the past decade, he has teamed up with guitar virtuoso John Stowell, most recently on 2016's Basement Blues, which All About Jazz's Dan McClenaghan calls "as compelling and modernistic and compelling as any group out there," hailing Zilber as "soulful and flawless". Their 2015 Origin Records recording Live Beauty, made DownBeat magazine's "best of the year" list for 2015, as well as garnering rave reviews from JazzTimes and All About Jazz. This was a follow-up to the group's Shot Through With Beauty, which NPR jazz critic Andrew Gilbert picked as a top 10 record of the year. On Turning Ten: The Billy Collins Project, providing musical settings for the American Poet Laureate's poems, was hailed by famed jazz journalist Bill Milkowski as a "work of art of the highest order." Zilber currently leads his "Originals for the Originals" project, with an upcoming 2017 Origin album release of the same name to feature high-profile sidemen Dave Kikoski, James Genus and Clarence Penn. Zilber also leads a project called Weather Wayne, his electric jazz homage to Wayne Shorter, recently playing to a sold out house at SFJAZZ.
Zilber is also a sideman in various projects, playing in and writing for SF-based Electric Squeezebox Orchestra. This highly acclaimed composers' big band recently released Cheap Rent, receiving 4.5 stars in DownBeat. In Berkeley, California, he leads the multiple DownBeat award-winning Jazzschool Jazz Workshop, as well as overseeing the composition program and teaching ensembles at the California Jazz Conservatory. Zilber holds a Doctorate in composition from NYU.

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