"On the new release Celestial Green Monster, Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band -- assembled from Ho's favorite musicians with whom he had the pleasure and honor to work with since embarking upon a professional career in music in the 1980s -- perform both original compositions by Ho ('Liberation Genesis'; 'Blues to the Freedom Fighters'; 'The Struggle for a New World Suite') as well as arrangements of two pop culture classics ('Spiderman Theme'; 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'). The quintessential American orchestra is not the symphony, but the big band. Retaining the essential features of swing and African-descended rhythmic vitality and complexity, improvisation (both individual and collective) with sophisticated compositional imagination, elasticity and experimentation with timbre and harmony, expansive and epic themes, the big band makes for as much a 'joyful noise' as the ubiquitous small band. Though the composer/arranger may start with sketches and minimally notated material, the opportunity and challenge for a broader and more extensive palette of orchestral voicing, contrapuntal techniques (both melodically and rhythmically), and magnified excitement, intensity, energy and explosive dynamic range ('from a whisper to a scream') continually make for the big band form an ideal vehicle of serious extended composition."-Mutable Music
Related Categories of Interest:
Improvised Music Jazz NY Downtown & Jazz/Improv Staff Picks & Recommended Items
Search for other titles on the Mutable label.
|
You may also be interested in:
| |
Name |
Price |
|
|---|
 |
Brown, Marion: Why Not? |
$10.95 |
 |
Fujii, Satoko ma-do: Desert Ship |
$17.95 |
 |
OtherTet, The: (Lowe / Ho Bynum / Morris / Obeng) |
$12.95 |
 |
Abrams, Muhal Richard & Roscoe Mitchell: Spectrum |
$13.95 |
 |
New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff |
$14.95 |
 |
Univers Zero: Clivages |
$14.95 |
 |
Lovedale: Coziness Kills |
$16.95 |
 |
Talibam!: Boogie in the Breeze Blocks |
$10.95 |
 |
Ewart, Douglas With Leo Smith/Tatsu Aoki/Hamid Drake: Velvet Fire |
$14.95 |
 |
Knuffke, Kirk Trio: Amnesia Brown |
$15.95 |
 |
Blaser, Samuel Quartet: Pieces of Old Sky |
$15.95 |
 |
Sharp, Elliott / Carbon: Void Coordinates |
$19.95 |
 |
Chicago Underground Duo: Boca Negra |
$14.95 |
 |
Wilson, Tony Sextet: Lowest Note |
$15.95 |
 |
Yamamoto, Eri Trio: In Each Day Something Good |
$13.95 |
 |
Atomic/School Days: Distil |
$16.95 |
 |
Double Duo (Verploegen / Mengelberg / Tamura / Fujii): Crossword Puzzle |
$15.95 |
 |
Anker / Taborn / Cleaver: Floating Islands |
$16.95 |
 |
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Forty Fort |
$13.95 |
 |
Brotzmann, Peter : Lost & Found |
$18.95 |
 |
Abe, Kaoru: Winter 1972 |
$19.95 |
 |
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: American Agonistes |
$15.95 |
 |
Crothers, Connie & Michael Bisio: Session At 475 Kent |
$13.95 |
Search for other titles from Ho, Fred And The Green Monster Big Band
|
Product Information:
UPC: 801021700128
Label: Mutable Catalog ID: MUTABLE 001CD Squidco Product Code: 12664 Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2009 Country: USA Packaging: Cardstock Gatefold Sleeve Engineered, mixed, edited and masterd by Jon Rosenberg. Recorded December 17, 2008 at Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY.
 |
 |
 |
 |
Personnel:
The Green Monster Big Band:
Fred Ho-leader/baritone sax
Bobby Zankel-alto sax
Jim Hobbs-alto sax
Hafez Modirzadeh-tenor sax
Salim Washington-tenor sax
Stanton Davis-trumpet
Brian Kilpatrick-trumpet
Amir Elsaffar-trumpet
Taylor Ho Bynum-cornet
Robert Pilkington-trombone
Marty Wehner-trombone
Richard Harper-trombone
Earl MacIntyre-contrabass trombone
David Harris-contrabass trombone
Art Hirahara-piano, electronic keyboard
Wes Brown-electric and acoustic bass
Royal Hartigan-drum set
Guest Artists on In A Gadda Da Vida:
Abraham Gomez-Delgado-vocals
Haleh Abghari-vocals
Mary Halvorson-electric guitar
Highlight an artist name or instrument above
and click here to Search |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Track Listing:
1. Spiderman Theme
In-A-Gaddda-Da-Vida (In the Garden of Eden)
2:20
2. Blue Planet, My Love 6:51
3. Journey To The Dark Heart, Enter The Serpents Of Stratification 2:45
4. Mastodon, My Friend 0:45
5. Where Angels, Mastodons, Sabertooths, And Whales Fear To Tread (Paradise For Parasites) 1:28
6. The Tipping Point Of No Return 4:14
7. Liberation Genesis 6:49
8. Blues To The Freedom Fighters 9:56
The Struggle for a New World Suite
9. Part Of The Solution, NOT Part Of The Problem 2:04
10. Original, Organic And African 9:30
11. Battleground Earth Blues 6:14
12. Patience, Passion And Praxis 3:08
13. Up Against The Wall You *%&@# Gods Of Corporate Profit! 1:38
14. Paper Tigers Are Real Scaredy Cats 6:29
15. Guerillas Gone Wild |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|