Reviews that mention Gianfranco Agresti
June 12, 2021
Orchestrer Brez Meja/Orchestra Senza Confini
Live in Nova Gorica
Klopotec Records IZK CD 116
Alban Darche
Le Gros Cube #2
Yolk Records J 2060
Ever since they began organizing larger groups, musicians have craftily arranged and refined the resulting instrumental colors. Even in standard big band configuration permutations can be limitless. The Slovenian-Italian Orchestrer Brez Meja/Orchestra Senza Confini (OBOSC) and the French-based Le Gros Cube #2 (LGC2) confirm this with programs that are equally fascinating but completely unlike. Directed by a conduction from Slovenian percussionist Zlatko Kaučič and Italian bassist Giovanni Maier the 20-piece OBOSC cannily negotiates the peaks and valleys of a nearly 55-minute creation, with expressive group work suggesting Jazz, folkloric and New music considerations. More traditional, the 17-piece LGC2 mixes Swiss, French and American musicians to perform in organized sections and freeing solos a 10-part composition by tenor saxophonist Alban Darche, who is also involved in many other international projects. MORE
December 16, 2015
Orcheatra Senza Confini/Orkester Brez Meja
Orcheatra Senza Confini/Orkester Brez Meja
Dobialabel
Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin
Ichigo Ichie
Libra Records 212
Circum Grand Orchestra
12
Circum-Disc CD 1401
Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris
Possible Universe
NBR SA Jazz 014
Bertrand Denzler/Onceim
Morph
Confront ccs 37
Something In The Air: Big Bands Redux
By Ken Waxman
Although most people associate big bands with the Swing Era dances and later, jazzier, manifestations such as Nimmons’n’Nine and The Boss Brass, despite the dearth of venues and difficulties of keeping even a combo working steadily, musicians persist in utilizing large ensembles. Like muralists who prefer the magnitude of a large canvas, composers, arrangers and players appreciate the colours and breath available using numerous, well-balanced instruments. MORE