ボブ・ベルデンから以下のメッセージと写真が送られてきました。
ウォレス・ルーニーがウエイン・ショーターのオーケストラ作品を演奏したそうです。文中にある「ザ・レジェンド」という曲は、しばらく前に「Jazz Conversation」でウエインのインタヴューをしたときにも彼から聞いた曲名です。
マイルスは最後のコンサート会場となった「ハリウッド・ボウル」の楽屋でウエインと旧交を温め、その際にこの曲をまた一緒にやりたいと話したそうです。
ちなみに写真の中で指揮をしているひとがボブ・ベルデンです。
Best set, large ensemble division: Trumpeter Wallace Roney’s “To Miles, From Wayne,” offered rare Wayne Shorter compositions written (but never played) in the late ’60s for the Miles Davis Quintet and chamber orchestra. Shorter recently entrusted the long-lost scores to Roney, who teamed Sunday night with a 20-plus member ensemble drawn largely from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and anchored by the A-list bass-and-drum team of Buster Williams and Lenny White. New Yorker Bob Belden conducted the well-prepared ensemble.
The pieces - “The Legend,” “Twin Dragons,” “Universe” - were astounding in their formal detail, imaginative vision and emotional depth. Shorter’s distinctive melodic fragments and harmonic shifts spread like ink in water through the woodwinds and brass. Roney weaved in and out of the textures like a boxer. The Hart Plaza amphitheater is not ideal for music of this delicacy, and nuances of the scoring were lost. But the huge audience was extraordinarily attentive - I’ve heard louder audiences at Orchestra Hall.
It was a shame that rain washed out the last 15 minutes of the program (two compositions). But bless Roney for championing this historic music and Collins for having the vision to bring it to Detroit.
Here are some photos of the gig.
Buster Williams, Wallace Roney, Lenny White, Me, AJ, Mike Spengle
The Orchestra
Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney, Me
AJ, Me, Lenny White, Wallace Roney
Me and Lenny White
Me, Lenny White, Wallace Roney
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at 2014-09-04 12:37
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