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Gary Morgan: Panamericana! |
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Hear in mp3 format! Batuki
Di Bangu
...His writing is fresh, personal, sonically
meticulous, and more than anything, written by a great musician
for great musicians...Within merely a measure, he can shift from
densely folkloric, polyrhythmic Afro-Cuban or Brazilian textures
to transparent and elusively shifting timbres reminiscent of the
French Impressionists, Bartók, Neo-Classic Stravinsky, and
of course, the more pensive side of Stan Kenton and Gil Evans...
PanAmericana! began in New York in 1997 as a compositional vehicle for Gary, as well as a repertory orchestra for modern Cuban and Brazilian classics. The recent emphasis in the band has been the orchestration and arrangement of some of the wealth of material emerging from the contemporary composers of Brazil, who do not have much exposure in this country, including such major talents as Egberto Gismonti, Milton Nascimento, Hermeto Pascoal, Jovino Santos Neto and Itibere Zwarg. This is not your father's big band. Although Gary is steeped in the big band tradition and sound, PanAmericana! represents an attempt to expand, through orchestration, his rhythmic, melodic and harmonic ideas.
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