Search - Allyn Ferguson :: Borderland

With the Chamber Jazz Sextet, composer, leader and conductor Allyn Ferguson set out to do what he saw was going to be inevitable - the bringing together of jazz and classical disciplines.


"The Chamber Jazz Sextet hopes to catalyze this inevitable fusion of jazz and classical attitudes," he said. "Toward this end, the members of the group, both individually and collectively, are making use of their every available musical knowledge in attempting to render music both meaningful and legitimate for the listener."


The results he achieved with this multi-instrumental group, in both the first half, where the focus is primarily on the sextet, and in the second, where it functions in an essentially accompanying role to poet Kenneth Patchen's interpretations, (#13-20) are provocative, stimulating and rewarding. The group is well knit, with strong soloists and provided one of the most fascinating attempts of its kind to combine two musical worlds without compromising the inherent values and virtues of each.

01. Perplexity

02. What Is This Thing Called Love?

03. Borderland - Sextet For Contemporaries

04. 1st Movement - Adagio-Moderato

05. 2nd Movement - Lento

06. 3rd Movement - Vivace

07. In The Still Of The Night

08. Brand X

09. Surrey With The Fringe On Top

10. Canons For Funkies

11. Blue Winds

12. Fantasia On "Little Girl Blue"

13. The Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon-Colored Gloves

14. The State Of The Nation

15. Do The Dead Know What Time It Is?

16. And With The Sorrows Of This Joyousness

17. The Lute In The Atic

18. Lonesome Boy Blues

19. Limericks

20. I Went To The City