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File under: Contemporary
Brian Woodbury
Variety Orchestra (CD)
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Followers of our Quarterly will recall, about 6 years back, Woodbury's inspired arrangement of 'Shenandoah', which managed to embrace the whole of America history in under 10 minutes. Since then he has been working on completing this collection, his first full ensemble instrumental CD. The interest starts with the ensemble itself, half as expected for Latin, Jazz and Big band arrangements and half traditional American: pedal steel, banjo, accordion and fiddles. One thinks of Van Dyke Parks', and indeed VDP is a fan: '..consummate song writing craft ... indispensible'. This is the work of an arranger and composer still dedicated to the unfashionable pursuit of a kind of extended - mainly instrumental - show music where skill and intelligence and attention to detail matter indiv. An intensely musical record, and a highly unusual one. But then what would you expect from a guy who studied with both Tom Lehrer and Pauline Olivieros?
Details
File under: Contemporary
Cat. number: RER BW1, SOME PHIL 7
Year: 2004
Format
Recorded between 1990 and 2003 at:
Dubway Studios, New York;
Some Studios, Brooklyn;
Marc's House, Neptune;
Dino Falls, Hollywood;
The Rusty Scupper, Los Angeles.
Track 8 first performed at La MaMa, E.T.C. New York, May 1989. Previously released on The ReR Quarterly Volume 4 Number 2.
Release notes
Recorded between 1990 and 2003 at: Dubway Studios, New York; Some Studios, Brooklyn; Marc's House, Neptune; Dino Falls, Hollywood; The Rusty Scupper, Los Angeles. Track 8 first performed at La MaMa, E.T.C. New York, May 1989. Previously released on <A HREF=http://www.discogs.com/release/834236>The ReR Quarterly Volume 4 Number 2</A>.
Tracklist
| 1 | Take The J Train | 5:25 | |
| 2 | Mom | 4:32 | |
| 3 | Garbanzo Beans | 3:42 | |
| 4 | Venice, Italy | 8:48 | |
| 5 | Jesus Christ Alrighty | 4:37 | |
| 6 | Long May She Wave | 6:19 | |
| 7 | Threnody For Kennedy And Connally | 5:25 | |
| 8 | Shenandoah / Innsbruck | 5:41 |
Credits
- Nick Ariondo
- Accordion (1, 2, 4, 6)
- Conrad Korsch
- Acoustic Bass (1, 4, 6, 7)
- Aaron Heick
- Alto Saxophone (1 to 4, 6, 7), Clarinet (2, 4, 7), Soprano Saxophone (3, 4, 6, 7), Tenor Saxophone (1, 3, 5 to 7)
- Marc Muller
- Banjo (4, 6, 7), Guitar (3, 5, 7)
- Steve Elson
- Baritone Saxophone (1, 2, 7)
- Brian Woodbury
- Composed By, Arranged By, Mixed By, Producer, Electronics (2, 7, 8)
- Hedi El Kholti
- Design
- Jon Gintzler
- Design
- Dan Morris
- Drums (1, 6, 7)
- Jonathan Feinberg
- Drums (2, 3, 5)
- Elma Mayer
- Photography By [Cover]
- Li Pettigrew
- Photography By [Studio]
- Mark Woodbury
- Photography [Band]
- Dan Levine
- Trombone
- Frank London
- Trumpet (3 to 5, 8)
- Jim O'Connor
- Trumpet (1, 2, 4, 6, 7)
- Sarah Parkins
- Violin (1, 2, 4, 6)
