Leaving For Home is Big Band Byrne's debut CD. This CD holds seven wonderfully crafted tunes for Jazz Orchestra. With over-tones of Ellington and Mingus, Leaving For Home is a CD full of new, original, exciting, compositions and soloists. Its contemporary big band music that will smack you in the face!
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What the critics have said about Big Band Byrne's latest CD!
Colin Byrne, one of the finest interpreters of jazz in the United Kingdom... he has also included a jazz dimension seldom seen in mainstream America, an amalgamation of big band style with underlying influences of pianist Duke Ellington and bassist Charles Mingus. Leaving For Home is a passion filled musical delight, a recording that goes the distance towards building a foundation of energized exuberance, a truly amazing piece of work from the United Kingdom of jazz. Colin Byrne and big band jazz go together with a breath of fresh air seldom experienced in recent years. As you listen to Leaving For Home, place the album under the letter B for a brilliantly conceived recording that is one of the finest recordings of its kind to date. Sheldon Nunn. www.jusjazz.com!
Byrnes arrangements are imaginative and manage to escape many of the big-band clichés. The band displays a high standard of ensemble work, with punchy brass and well-drilled saxes. Burkill contributes some fine tenor-sax work. ! Tony Augarde. www.jazzviews.co.uk!
The orchestra whips up an absolute storm...it's a white knuckle ride of burning solos,careering textures and propulsive energy...a startlingly good debut.! Peter Quinn. Jazzwise Magazine. www.jazzwise.com!
Leaving For Home takes one on a nice ride to a destination, connecting new material in one riveting performance. The album is replete with solo journeys from players who represent the top echelons of the British jazz world. Byrne has carved out a unique place of his own with this audacious, fiery recording in the finest big band tradition. ! Edward Blanco. www.allaboutjazz.com
Reprinted with permission. Copyright (c) 2006. AllAboutJazz.com and Edward Blanco.
a revelation in terms of power and control. compelling big-band arrangements kept the audience on its feet,both in terms of paying attention and at the end whilst shouting for more Jazz in Leeds. www.jazzinleeds.co.uk
A bit exceptional. John Killoch. mainlybigbands.co.uk
Very Impressive. Robert Gibson. 96.7 fm BCB Radio.
the band exhibit an infectious enthusiasm both for each others playing and for the material Byrne has provided for them, and the resulting album is a joyous celebration of big-band values: tight ensemble work, freewheeling solo features, punchy riff playing, fierce interaction between sections. Chris Parker. www.vortexjazz.co.uk
So, if you imagined that the big band was a near-extinct behemoth, dinosaur-like, imagine instead a huge, gleaming limousine, a pride of lions, a herd of proud Arab steeds. Suffice to say that if you rate the crisp big bands of Buddy Rich and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, with a touch of full-throated Kenton, do not miss this stunning 7-track album. Ron Burnett. York Press
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R&B Festival in Colne, Lancashire, UK on Monday August 31st. The
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Doors open at 7.30pm and we will be onstage at 10.15pm.
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"At last a follow up to Janette Mason's sparkling debut as leader. Alien Left Hand ....was well worth the wait…” Production **** Performance**** -- BBC Music Magazine
“…an album fizzing with fresh ideas and delights, an exhilarating musical journey .. with brilliantly original writing and inspired playing…” -- Helen Mayhew
"Every track from the rhythmic ‘NY Cab Ride’ and restless ‘4 Wheel Drive’ to the brooding ‘Mae’s Song’ has a terrific hook but it’s the way Mason switches tempo and moods that makes ALH great fun. " -- Diva Magazine
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Hello Byrne's big-band, thank you very much for the add, it is a pleasure to be able to share with you in this space, many congratulations on your good music, I hope I can keep in touch with you greetings from A Coruna (Spain)
Grove Inn Jazz Club, Back Row, Leeds LS11 5PL.
Sunday October 12 2008, 8:30pm
£4.00 waged/£3.00 unwaged
Guy Hatton (guitar), Stuart Garden (keyboards), Kenny Higgins (bass), Caroline Boaden (drums). Electric jazz influenced by Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Gary Burton etc!
I'm happy and honored to inform you that our new album "MASISAMBA" will be available on the internet in a few weeks!
Thank you very much for your interest in what we do. Our MySpace player plays more than 150 times over night ! ! ! ! ! ! It inspires my colleagues ! ! ! ! ! There is not much real Big Band music in today's world. To be frank, it takes a lot of effort to keep musicians together. So your interest helps me to cope with this!
cordially, Armen Martirosian, artistic director, Armenian Jazz Band
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