Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Legends of Music - Miles! Live in Concert

© -  Steven A. Cerra
On January 10th 2015 a group of Dutch Jazz Musicians who referred to themselves as the LEGENDS OF MUSIC performed and recorded a concert at the Philharmonie in Haarlem, The Netherlands which has been released on CD as Miles! Live in Concert.

 The group consists of Michael Varekamp on trumpet, Ben Van Den Dungen, tenor and soprano saxophone, Wilboud Burkens, keyboards, Manuel Hugas, bass, Eric Hoeke, drums, Job Geheniau, VJ, and Jimmy Rage, spoken word.

 The seven tracks on the CD are a retrospective of Miles Davis’ career beginning with Ascenseur pour L’Echafaud [Ascent to the Scaffold] from the louis Malle 1950s film of the same name to Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time, a song that Miles often performed later in his career.

 The following excerpts are from the project commentary located on the Legends of Music website:

 “Legends Of Music is a new production team whose objective is to create special music programs based on an equal mix of film and music.  Live improvisation based on composed music is combined with a collage of video and moving pictures. Musicians respond film and VJ reacts to the music and each performance is different and unique!

read more: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/legends-of-music-miles-live-in-concert.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+JazzProfiles+(Jazz+Profiles)

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