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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!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
great bigband, sophisticated arrangements, wonderful and amazing singing
16 Dec 2011
Format:Audio CD
I've seen the this program last night (15th of december 2011) in hamburg at the ndr studio and I can tell you:
the ndr bigband, mike gibbs and norma winstone present an outstanding record!
roots go back to the seventies, when norma winstone performs in the bigbands of mike westbrook
and mike gibbs, already together with "her azimuth-hus-band" kenny wheeler and john taylor,
and now mike gibbs arranges the trumpet solo of kenny wheeler in "some shadows" for the bigband
of the ndr and for their amazing flugelhornplayer claus stötter, who is moved of this great treat
and who moves you.
Mike Gibss arranges songs of randy newman, cole porter, sting, fats waller, joni Mitchell, tom waits, duke ellington, billy strayhorn and so on......
Similar to a project, colin towns did, also with norma winstone and the ndr bigband in 2006 - but both are very unique arrangers, so both are standing for themselves.
You cannot say, what is the most important and most special thing in this production:
The amazing and wonderful norma winstone, with her uncomparable way of singing songs, you have heard so often, and you then think, you had never heard them before?
The fantastic ndr bigbang, which plays incredible arrangements with such a nonchalance and understatement, but with the full power and the great varity of sensitive sounds of a "real bigband", with all that you can do with this brass and reeds, that hits you again and again?
The moving spiritual contribution of Christoph Lauer (ts) on "Here comes the honey man" (George and Ira Gershwin)? The wonderful "deep black" playing of Lutz Büchner on River Man (Nick Drake)?
The arrangements of mike gibbs are serving the the songs, the singer, and the band - all are presented with their original possibilities, with their unique quality, and the arrangements create a new thing, transcending the limits of the single elements.
Just listen and try to get it.
the ndr bigband, mike gibbs and norma winstone present an outstanding record!
roots go back to the seventies, when norma winstone performs in the bigbands of mike westbrook
and mike gibbs, already together with "her azimuth-hus-band" kenny wheeler and john taylor,
and now mike gibbs arranges the trumpet solo of kenny wheeler in "some shadows" for the bigband
of the ndr and for their amazing flugelhornplayer claus stötter, who is moved of this great treat
and who moves you.
Mike Gibss arranges songs of randy newman, cole porter, sting, fats waller, joni Mitchell, tom waits, duke ellington, billy strayhorn and so on......
Similar to a project, colin towns did, also with norma winstone and the ndr bigband in 2006 - but both are very unique arrangers, so both are standing for themselves.
You cannot say, what is the most important and most special thing in this production:
The amazing and wonderful norma winstone, with her uncomparable way of singing songs, you have heard so often, and you then think, you had never heard them before?
The fantastic ndr bigbang, which plays incredible arrangements with such a nonchalance and understatement, but with the full power and the great varity of sensitive sounds of a "real bigband", with all that you can do with this brass and reeds, that hits you again and again?
The moving spiritual contribution of Christoph Lauer (ts) on "Here comes the honey man" (George and Ira Gershwin)? The wonderful "deep black" playing of Lutz Büchner on River Man (Nick Drake)?
The arrangements of mike gibbs are serving the the songs, the singer, and the band - all are presented with their original possibilities, with their unique quality, and the arrangements create a new thing, transcending the limits of the single elements.
Just listen and try to get it.
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