Jazz Composers Orchestra Update Michael Mantler
Album info
Album-Release:
2014
HRA-Release:
04.11.2014
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 Update One (Live) 04:45
- 2 Update Eight (Live) 06:01
- 3 Update Nine (Live) 05:45
- 4 Update Eleven (Live) 07:02
- 5 Update Five (Live) 05:03
- 6 Update Six (Live) 07:24
- 7 Update Ten (Live) 06:46
- 8 Update Twelve, Pt. 1 (Live) 06:50
- 9 Update Twelve, Pt. 2 (Live) 02:49
- 10 Update Twelve, Pt. 3 (Live) 02:30
Info for Jazz Composers Orchestra Update
In 1968, composer-trumpeter Michael Mantler recorded The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra. Released on the JCOA label (and subsequently distributed by ECM), this classic, groundbreaking album of composition and improvisation featured Mantler conducting a large jazz orchestra that included some of the era’s iconic free improvisers as soloists: pianist Cecil Taylor, cornetist Don Cherry, trombonist Roswell Rudd, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, guitarist Larry Coryell, saxophonist Gato Barbieri. In the process of digitizing his catalog, Mantler reacquainted himself with early scores, eventually envisioning fresh performances of this vintage material. With The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update, Mantler has re-imagined his 1960s music for the 21st century, with electric guitar and amplified string quartet added to the instrumentation. The Nouvelle Cuisine Big Band of energized young Europeans, conducted by Christoph Cech and featuring Mantler on trumpet, was recorded in these updated scores live at Vienna’s Porgy & Bess club in 2013. Just as the original did in 1968, the result sounds stirringly contemporary, brimming with dark majesty and a bright sense of sonic possibility.
Nouvelle Cuisine Big Band
Christoph Cech, conductor
Special guest soloists:
Michael Mantler, trumpet
Bjarne Roupé, guitar
Wolfgang Puschnig, alto saxophone, flute
Harry Sokal, soprano-, tenor saxophone
David Helbock, piano
Bernie Mallinger, violin
Igmar Jenner, violin
Cynthia Liao, viola
Asja Valcic, cello
Manfred Balasch, soprano saxophone, flute
Clemens Salesny, soprano saxophone, clarinet
Wolfgang Puschnig, alto saxophone, flute
Fabian Rucker, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Harry Sokal, soprano-, tenor saxophone
Chris Kronreif, tenor saxophone, flute
Florian Fennes, baritone saxophone
Aneel Soomary, trumpet
Martin Ohrwalder, trumpet
Christoph Walder, french horn
Hans Peter Manser, french horn
Peter Nickel, trombone
Florian Heigl, bass trombone
Alex Rindberger, tuba
David Helbock, piano
Bjarne Roupé, guitar
Peter Herbert, bass
Tibor Kövesdi, bass
Manuel Mayr, bass
Lukas Knöfler, drums
Recorded live August 30 / 31 and September 1, 2013 at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Austria
Engineered by Martin Vetters
Mixed and mastered October and December 2013 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes_les_Fontaines, France
Engineered by Gérard de Haro, Nicolas Baillard
Produced by Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
is a composer and musician in new jazz and contemporary music. This official home page presents current news, biography, recordings, audio excerpts, scores, performances, collaborating artists, press, and contact information.
Born in Vienna in 1943, Michael Mantler went to the United States in 1962, and after early activities in the New York avant-garde as composer and trumpet player, he formed the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, and eventually WATT, a music production company. He toured and recorded extensively with Carla Bley as well as occasionally with his own live performance projects.
He has recorded many albums for WATT with varying instrumentations and soloists. Appearing infrequently live, he mostly concentrated on composing and recording. He has often worked with texts of contemporary authors (among them most prominently Samuel Beckett) featuring well-known singers from diverse backgrounds of jazz and popular music (including Jack Bruce and Robert Wyatt).
in 1991 he left the United States and returned to Europe. Continuing to cross the borders between jazz and contemporary classical music with his distinct instrumental and vocal compositions, he recorded new albums, now for ECM Records, including "sort-of" an opera, pieces for chamber ensembles, a large work for full symphony orchestra, suites of songs with words by Giuseppe Ungaretti and Paul Auster, a series of instrumental solo concertos and a collection of guitar/piano duets. His latest recording, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update, was released in 2014.
Comment c'est (How It Is) - a song cycle for voice and chamber orchestra, featuring Himiko Paganotti, will be released by ECM Records during November 2017.
Booklet for Jazz Composers Orchestra Update