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Item specifics
- Condition
- UPC
- 0630183098220
- Artist
- Mike Longo
- Format
- CD
- Producer
- Mike Longo
- Release Year
- 2006
- Record Label
- CD Baby, Cdb
- Release Title
- Oasis
- Genre
- Jazz
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Product Identifiers
Producer
Mike Longo
Record Label
CD Baby, Cdb
UPC
0630183098220
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25046034183
Product Key Features
Release Year
2006
Format
CD
Genre
Jazz
Artist
Mike Longo
Release Title
Oasis
Dimensions
Item Height
0.40 in
Item Weight
0.25 lb
Item Length
5.60 in
Item Width
4.90 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs
1
Number of Tracks
13
Tracks
Bag of Bones, Chanson, Mike's Lament, Love Walked in, Alone Together, Infusion, The Godfather, Lazy Afternoon, Covenant City, Nocturnal Sea Voyage, The Night We Called It a Day, No More Blues, Song of My Dream (For Duke)
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NEW YORK STATE OF THE ART JAZZ ENSEMBLE OASIS, the new recording from Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble, is an album of big band music, but completely different than the sounds traditionally associated with the term 'big band.' OASIS is what Longo calls 'contrapuntal music with a forwardpropelling melodic force using a small, modern, be-bop group concept with a 13-piece horn section.' With every new recording, pianist Mike Longo practically teaches a university Masters Class on jazz as he bridges the gap between be-bop and the contemporary era, bringing the best traditions forward while also adding new innovations in rhythm and structure. OASIS, on the CAP (Consolidated Artists Productions) label, exemplifies this blending of old and new. Longo brings impeccable credentials to the project -- he started his career with Cannonball Adderly, studied under Oscar Peterson, became the pianist and musical director in Dizzy Gillespie's band (and played regularly with Dizzy for 22 years), authored nine books teaching music, and performed onstage with countless top jazzsters over the years (Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Coleman Hawkins, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lee Konitz, Roy Eldridge, James Moody, Buddy Rich and many others). OASIS, Longo's 18th album under his own name, contains his arrangements of 13 tunes (seven are original compositions) for a 17-piece big band (plus a vocalist on three songs) that always includes piano, guitar, bass, drums, four trumpets, four trombones and five saxophones (two altos, two tenors and a baritone) although the sax players occasionally play flute or clarinet, and one trumpet player takes a flugelhorn solo. A few of the horn players vary from track to track depending on which musicians were available for the sessions. The music was recorded live in the studio with no overdubs. While Longo often records and tours with his own jazz trio, this larger ensemble began in 1999 and has recorded two previous albums, EXPLOSION and AFTERMATH (which both topped South American jazz polls). This bigger band serves several purposes. 'Our primary motivation is to make music that fills the listeners with as much joy and happiness as possible,' explains Mike. 'We titled the album OASIS because in the type of world we live in today, people need a special place where they can go to simply enjoy music and get away from the harsh realities.' The band also serves as a training ground for younger musicians. 'We have musicians in the band who are in their early twenties and in their seventies, but the experience is invaluable for younger players. The apprenticeship part of jazz has almost been destroyed, so we are trying to bring that back. One of the only places you can learn certain things is on the bandstand in front of a live audience playing with musicians who learned from the early masters of the artform. Now we get to pass along our knowledge.' The New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble plays every four or five weeks at the NYC Baha'i Center in Greenwich Village in the new John Birks Gillespie Auditorium which Longo was able to name after Dizzy. Longo books jazz acts there every Tuesday night with low ticket prices (usually $15; $10 for students) to allow jazz lovers to hear great new music at prices below New York's jazz clubs and concert halls. In addition, Longo's ensemble recordings spotlight his big band arrangements and orchestrations. Longo brings a unique background to the task. In addition to playing in large and small bands with Gillespie, Longo studied classical counterpoint and composition with Frank Fields and Hall Overton, and Longo was commissioned to write music that combined classical and jazz for Dizzy, James Moody and various symphony orchestras. 'This ensemble is not patterned after the call-andresponse big bands from the past like Count Basie,' explains Mike. 'It's set up like a be-bop group that just happens to be playing with a 13- piece horn section. In the
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