BARRY GUY. LONDON JAZZ COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA
Radio Rondo

IRENE SCHWEIZER
Schaffhausen Concert




Barry Guy:director, bass
Irène Schweizer: piano
Evan Parker: reeds
Mats Gustafsson: reeds
Trevor Watts: reeds
Simon Picard: reeds
Pete McPhail: reeds
Conrad Bauer: tmb
Johannes Bauer: tmb
Alan Tomlinson: tmb
Henry Lowther: tpt
Herb Robertson: tpt
Rich Laughlin: tpt
Per Åke Holmlander, tuba
Phil Wachsmann: violin
Barre Phillips: bass
Paul Lytton: percussion
Lucas Niggli: percussion

 

1. Schaffhausen Concert (Irène Schweizer) (15’25)
Irène Schweizer: Piano Solo

2. Radio Rondo (Barry Guy) (30’01)
London Jazz Composers Orchestra

Recorded Mai, 21, 2008 at Schaffhauser Jazzfestival, Switzerland. Schaffhausen Concert is recorded by Radio DRS 2, Martin Pearson.
Radio Rondo is recorded by Willy Strehler. Mixed and mastered by Willy Strehler.
Liner notes: Bill Shoemaker. Photos: Francesca Pfeffer. Cover art and graphic design: Jonas Schoder.


Intakt CD 158 / 2009

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"After her riveting prelude-like solo, Schweizer applied her pan-stylistic approach to Guy’s challenging, playerempowering score. Though Guy retained the form’s traditional utility as a soloist’s showcase on “Radio Rondo,” he expanded the scope of the rondo’s back and forth to feature Schweizer in several subgroupings – a pummeling quintet passage with Guy, bassist Barre Phillips, and drummers Paul Lytton and Lucas Niggli – as well as encounters with the full force of the 17-piece contingent. In the later, Guy cued single-note stabs, flurried textures and a host of other events from parts of the orchestra, spiking the power of the notaded materials. For all of the piece’s intensity, Guy slipped beautiful passages – like the plaintive melody stated by tenor saxophonist Simon Picard – into the piece. A magisterial theme set up the piece’s final tutti blast.”
Downbeat, September 2008


Barry Guy, Irène Schweizer, Mai, 21, 2008 at Schaffhauser Jazzfestival. Photo: Francesca Pfeffer


Als Glücksfall» beschreibt der Jazzkritiker Christian Rentsch die Begegnung von Irène Schweizer mit dem London Jazz Composers Orchestra, von dem nun nach “Theoria” und “Double Trouble Two” die dritte CD zeugt.
Im Auftrag des Schaffhauser Jazzfestival 2008 komponierte Barry Guy ein neues Werk für das London Jazz Composers Orchestra mit Irène Schweizer am Piano. Die Komposition mit dem Titel «Radio Rondo» gibt der Pianistin Raum, als Solistin inmitten der britischen All-Star-Besetzung zu brillieren. Das London Jazz Composers Orchestra trat in Schaffhausen nach einer zehnjährigen Konzertpause erstmals mit verjünger Besetzung und neuen Namen wie Mats Gustafson, Herb Robertson, Rich Laughlin und Lucas Niggli auf.

Den Konzertabend eröffnete Irène Schweizer mit einem Piano Solo, das vom Publikum ihrer Heimatstadt Schaffhausen mit grossem Applaus gefeiert wurde.
Die CD hält nun das Piano Solokonzert sowie die neue Komposition “Radio Rondo” von Barry Guy mit dem London Jazz Composers Orchestra und Irène Schweizer als Solistin fest. Der amerikanische Kritiker Bill Shoemaker, der in Schaffhausen die Uraufführung für die Zeitschrift ”Downbeat” besuchte, kommentierte: « After her riveting prelude-like solo, Schweizer applied her pan-stylistic approach to Guy’s challenging, playerempowering score. Though Guy retained the form’s traditional utility as a soloist’s showcase on “Radio Rondo,” he expanded the scope of the rondo’s back and forth to feature Schweizer in several subgroupings – a pummeling quintet passage with Guy, bassist Barre Phillips, and drummers Paul Lytton and Lucas Niggli – as well as encounters with the full force of the 17-piece contingent. In the later, Guy cued single-note stabs, flurried textures and a host of other events from parts of the orchestra, spiking the power of the notaded materials. For all of the piece’s intensity, Guy slipped beautiful passages – like the plaintive melody stated by tenor saxophonist Simon Picard – into the piece. A magisterial theme set up the piece’s final tutti blast.”


London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Mai, 21, 2008 at Schaffhauser Jazzfestival. Photo: Francesca Pfeffer

 

ODE TO A BASSIST

American jazz monthly «All About Jazz New York» features Barry Guy on the Front Page and a long portrait in the Mai issue 2009. Visit the portrait, written by «All About Jazz New York» -Editor Andrey Henkin: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/



click the image for the whole portrait

 

CD reviews

 

Barry Guy on Intakt Records

Irène Schweizer on Intakt Records

Evan Parker on Intakt Records

Mats Gustafsson on Intakt Records

Trevor Watts on Intakt Records

Simon Picard on Intakt Records

Conrad Bauer
on Intakt Records

Johannes Bauer on Intakt Records

Herb Robertson on Intakt Records

Per Åke Holmlander on Intakt Records


Paul Lytton on Intakt Records

Lucas Niggli on Intakt Records

 

 

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