Miho Hazama dirige Thad Jones – Con el Danish Radio Big Band
En Copenhague, con motivo del centenario del nacimiento de Thad Jones
Casting
Karl-Martin Almqvist — Saxofonista
Nicolai Schultz — Flautista
Jim McNeely — Pianista
Artur Tuznik — Pianista
Peter Dahlgren — Trombonista
Gidon Nunes Vaz — Trompetista
Mads La Cour — Trompetista
Per Gade — Guitarrista
Sobre el programa...
If there's one trumpeter that new generations of jazz fans remember, it's undoubtedly Thad Jones! Dubbed “the greatest trumpeter I've ever heard in my life” by his contemporary Charlie Mingus, he died in 1986 in his adoptive hometown—Copenhagen—after leading the Danish Radio Big Band for over 20 years. To mark the centenary of his birth, the band pays tribute to him, under the direction of talented jazz conductor and composer Miho Hazama—nominated for a Grammy Award and named by DownBeat magazine as one of the “25 for the future”!
The official baton of the DR Big Band since 2019, the Japanese conductor works with the musicians on some of the finest works of her predecessors: Jim McNeely's evocatively named composition Thad; Bob Brookmeyer's Fanfares and Folk Songs; My Centennial, Morning Reverend and the renowned A Child Is Born by Thad Jones himself. The concert closes with the late trumpeter's moving Farewell—preceded by a three-movement work composed by Hazama, and inspired by Thad's iconic epitaph: Live Life This Day.