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One More Time
UMO Jazz Orchestra
One More Time
Genres: International Music, Jazz, New Age, Pop
 
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Kenny Wheeler is one of the most imaginative composers in jazz, creating pieces that are at once tranquilly sonorous and alive with creative movement, their shifting parts suddenly matching and emerging into new life. List...  more »

     
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All Artists: UMO Jazz Orchestra
Title: One More Time
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Challenge
Original Release Date: 9/12/2000
Release Date: 9/12/2000
Album Type: Import
Genres: International Music, Jazz, New Age, Pop
Styles: Europe, Scandinavia, Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Swing Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 608917320220

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Kenny Wheeler is one of the most imaginative composers in jazz, creating pieces that are at once tranquilly sonorous and alive with creative movement, their shifting parts suddenly matching and emerging into new life. Listening to his orchestral music can be like watching rivers or clouds. He has a gift for finding the richest brass textures in a conventional big band's instrumentation, creating swaths of burnished sound, often by having the entire trumpet section double on flüugelhorns. It creates an especially dark texture with the trombones and reeds, and Wheeler's mastery of voicings, drawn as much from Hindemith as from Gil Evans, can create symphonic depths. This program of the trumpeter's compositions marks two events: Wheeler's 70th birthday and the 25th anniversary of Finland's UMO Jazz Orchestra, a first-rate big band, conducted by Kari Heinila, that brings its own luster to the trumpeter's charts. That brilliance is as apparent in the smaller instrumental groupings of one or two horns with rhythm section--like the flute and alto of "Blue for Lou"--as it is in the stately brass chords that introduce the 24-minute "One More Time Suite." Wheeler is the most frequent soloist on the suite, his trumpet and flügelhorn both reflective and passionate, but there are also solo and lead spots for several members of UMO. Wheeler is particularly fond of matching his horns with soprano saxophone timbres, and Jouni Jarvelo joins him in a lovely exchange in the suite's fourth movement. Similarly, Pepa Parvinen offers a beautiful introductory statement to the limpid "Sea Lady" before handing the line over to Wheeler. Norma Winstone's crystalline voice is used for words and melodies on "Only a Dream" and "Sea Lady," but it's even more impressive when she's improvising wordlessly, or being an integral part of Wheeler's orchestrations, soaring high above the horns with a distinctive, brilliant transparency. --Stuart Broomer

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Beautiful Music!!
Tom | Manchester, UK | 04/14/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is a really fantastic example of Kenny Wheeler's more recent compositions. He also plays some beautiful Flugelhorn on the pieces, often in unison with Norma Winstone's pure sounding voice. The suite is a beautifully contemplative work and the main features are some extremely delicate melodies and cyclic harmonic progressions. The arrangements appear to be quite simple because of the ease and poise in which they are performed, but as the pieces grow the layers build up until the texture is a finely woven mesh of melodic and contrapuntal writing.It is a truly stunning album, exploring the more subtle and expressive side of Jazz Orchestration."
INTELLIGENT MUSICAL TEXTURE
K. Prousalis | drama GREECE | 04/18/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"KENNY WHEELER collaborates here with UMO JAZZ orchestra and oncemore with NORMA WINSTONE one of BRITAINs best jazz singers .UMO JAZZ ORCHESTRA is a big band from FINLAND which approaches jazz in a wide ranging using both modern and classical elements.With KENNYs trumpet inside and NORMAs excellent vocal abilities you have a very rich orchestral jazz sound with a very pleasant pure and intelligent musical texture ."