Normand Guilbeault Ensemble: Live at Upstairs 2008 (CD): description

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Live at Upstairs 2008

Normand Guilbeault Ensemble: Mingus

Live at Upstairs 2008 new

Hommage à Mingus

Ambiances Jazz | AM 185 | 2009

CD 25.00 CA$

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Live at Upstairs 2008

image: Daniel Dufour

design: Joane Hétu

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“Tears came to my eyes when I started reading Normand Guilbeault’s transcriptions of tunes like What Love and The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady. I guess a pilgrim reaching Mecca for the first time must be experiencing similar feelings, or an art lover who finally gets to see a long-time favorite painting “in the flesh.” Mingus’s music is controversial, politically engaged, generous, warm, and passionate. It is not for the lukewarm and the undecisive. There is something simultaneously provocative, sexual, and mystical about it. It draws a wide landscape of America, an epic fresca that runs deep into the roots of jazz music. Very few American composers have successfully depicted their continent this perfectly, except maybe Duke Ellington and Charles Ives. You cannot enter Mingus country like a traveller on an organized trip, or a visitor on a museum tour — you have to throw yourself into it, body and soul. It’s a huge territory with several hundred compositions. I have always listened to Mingus’s music, but I had never given serious thought to the idea of really exploring it as a performer. It seemed to me that the music was too viscerally tied to Mingus himself, leaving little room for interpretation. In other winds, for a long time I though you couldn’t actually “play” Mingus. The Normand Guilbeault Ensemble has been proving me wrong for 14 years now.” —Jean Derome, January 2009

1

Passions of a Woman Loved (Mingus)

12m36s
2

Song With Orange (Mingus)

15m16s
3

Weird Nightmare (Mingus)

7m42s
4

Prayer for Passive Resistance (Mingus)

11m04s
5

Eclipse (Mingus)

5m42s
6

Sue’s Changes (Mingus)

21m09s

total duration

72m35s

UPC / EAN 771028118526

Normand Guilbeault Ensemble: Live at Upstairs 2008 (CD): description

Prices are in Canadian dollars — 1.00 CA$ ~ 0.95 US$ ~ 0.67 € ~ 0.58 £ ~ 84.50 ¥ ~ 1.5 AU$ ~ 5.2 DKK ~ 5.52 NOK ~ 6.89 SEK — and include handling, shipping and applicable taxes.


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