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"Among the most inventive and unpredictable big band jazz sets I’ve ever listened to." DICK METCALF, Contemporary Fusion Reviews "By showing that creative work still can be built off of Miles’ model, Schapiro and company pay the best possible tribute." J.D. CONSIDINE, Downbeat
If all that sounds a tad Talmudic, don’t worry—Schapiro understands the centrality of the blues to Kind Of Blue, and never lets the music get arcane or cerebral. It helps that his ensemble is powered by a first-rate rhythm section, particularly Piket and Jon Wikan, who is rapidly becoming one of the most astutely swinging big band drummers ...
Composer and arranger Jon Schapiro celebrates the 3 score anniversary of Miles Davis’ legendary Kind of Blue album by taking each tune, tweaking it and giving it new dimensions and colors.
Schapiro really puts the band through its paces here with constant tempo changes for the soloists to negotiate and Matt Hong makes a spectacular contribution on baritone. He is a veritable force-of-nature from the Nick Brignola school of hard-swinging excellence on his five choruses.
The new album from Schapiro17, a New York Big Band: New Shoes: Kind of Blue at 60. Get the new album on Summit Records April 2rd, 2020.
Composer/arranger Jon Schapiro falls into the latter category, and New Shoes: Kind Of Blue At 60 is a sort of creative commentary on that text, a sermon on five songs, if you will. In addition to offering big-band versions of Kind Of Blue’s material, he also has six KoB -inspired pieces of his own, an itchily propulsive cycle he calls ...
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2020 CD release of "New Shoes: Kind Of Blue At 60" on Discogs.
