#experimental big band

[reckonslepoisson]

Out to Lunch, Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra (2005)

To cover one of history’s greatest jazz works in its entirety is bold, but to do what Otomo Yoshihide did here – to attempt (and arguably succeed in) building a record of equal stature, to use one tectonic record to inspire another - doesn’t just take bravery. It takes genius. 

Pick: ‘Straight Up and Down ~ Will Be Back’

[zef-zef]

Terumasa Hino ‎- Journey To Air (Teichiku; Overseas Records, 1970)

Terumasa Hino: Trumpet, Flugelhorn Motohiko Hino: Drums, Handclaps Dave Liebman: Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone Steve Grossman: Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Flute Dave Holland, Lanny Fields, Teruo Nakamura: Bass Gary Pribec: Alto Saxophone Pete Yellin: Alto Saxophone, Flute Bobby Moses: Drums Mike Garson: Piano, Electric Piano Olu Dara: Trumpet

[dankalbumart]

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 2 by Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra ESP-Disk 1965 Jazz / Free Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Experimental Big Band / Progressive Jazz / Chamber Jazz / Modern Creative

[zhanteimi]

Sun Ra – Strange Celestial Road

Sun Ra – Strange Celestial Road

USA, 1980, avant-garde jazz / jazz-funk / jazz fusion / experimental big band It’s not enough that Side A has all that cozy jazz fusion sound I love, but it’s also got some unexpected experimental big band moments. Head-shaking funk. But then Side B throws a curveball with some deliberately off-key and off-kilter vocals, slapped together to maintain that looseness which is the hallmark of this…

[sonmelier]

19. Fire! Orchestra | Echoes

🇸🇪 Suède | Rune Grammofon | 110 minutes | 14 morceaux

Le bigband stockholmois Fire! Orchestra poursuit son travail d’exploration aussi hypnotique qu’euphorisant sur un cinquième album fleuve (près de deux heures) – qui sait maintenir tout du long notre intérêt à flot. Pas moins de 43 musiciens combinent leur énergie et leur maitrise instrumentale (y compris au niveau du chant) au service d’une œuvre produite avec maestria par la tête chercheuse de génie qu’est Jim O’Rourke. Un véritable dédale de cordes, de cuivres, de percussions et de saillies vocales, un tour de force musical à l’ampleur sidérante.

[thisisrealy2kok]

Björk – It's Oh So Quiet (1995)

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LYDIA LUNCH

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Mick Jones .

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[musicollage]

The Body + Big Brave – Leaving None... 2021 :  Thrill Jockey.

[octetensemble]

Our album “Scatter My Ashes” is now available at Bandcamp and was featured today in their NEW AND NOTABLE section. Here’s the blurb…

“Scatter My Ashes exists at a crossroads between multiple styles, but emerges with something rich, textural, ambient and riveting” -Bandcamp

[reckonslepoisson]

Witchy Activities and the Maple Death, Monika Roscher Bigband (2023)

I had not heard this album before and yet I also had; bits of post rock and prog rock and big band and jaunty pop and cross-genre fusion wrapped in a very accessible and frankly unstirring package. Contemporary ‘experimental’ music at its most tired.

Pick: ‘A Taste of the Apocalypse’

[zef-zef]

Anna Webber - Idiom I From Anna Webber - Idiom (Pi, 2021)

[dankalbumart]

Atlantis by Sun-Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra Saturn / Impulse! / Evidence 1969 Jazz / Free Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Experimental Big Band / Post-Bop / Progressive Jazz / Free Improvisation

[zhanteimi]

Charlie Haden – Liberation Music Orchestra

Charlie Haden – Liberation Music Orchestra

USA, 1970, experimental big band / free jazz On Haden’s first album as a band leader, Haden has some pretty eclectic song picks: three traditional Spanish songs, something from Ornette Coleman, and three pieces from one of my favorite jazz artists, Carla Bley. This makes my heart happy. I guess a couple of these tracks are political responses to the happenings of late 60s USA. Track A2, the one…

[sonmelier]

38. Monika Roscher Bigband | Witchy Activities and the Maple Death

🇩🇪 Allemagne | Zenna Records | 64 minutes | 15 morceaux

L’allemande Monika Roscher et sa vingtaine de musiciens s’adonnent ici à un déluge sonore pyrotechnique et labyrinthique ébouriffant, mêlant les esthétiques jazz, rock, zeuhl ou encore dark cabaret dans une œuvre furieusement originale et électrisante.

[neomachine]

it's insane and infuriating to me when people ask for alternatives to daughters and people only recommend really standard hardcore punk or whatever that just doesn't meet the need. the pull of ywgwyw is literally the math, the force and momentum that makes you feel like you're having a heart attack