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Lasse Lindgren Big Constellation: The Unrecorded Fox
Maynard Ferguson
trumpet1928 - 2006
Cat Anderson
trumpet1916 - 1981
Ziggy Elman
trumpet1914 - 1968
Jon Faddis
trumpetb.1953
Dave Stahl
trumpetb.1949
Wayne Bergeron
trumpetDennis Noday
trumpetSweden's " data-original-title="" title="">Lasse Lindgren is also a high-note trumpeter, one who not only reveres Ferguson as a role model but does much of his blowing on Maynard's own horn, a Conn Constellation given to him by the maestro's former manager, Ernie Garside, who heard Lindgren play it at a tribute held to honor MF after his passing in August 2006. "Lasse played on the horn for five minutes," Garside recalls, "and I was stoned. No one had played on that old horn like that since Maynard died!" The trumpet was immediately donated to the Swedish phenom. In 1967, Ferguson gave another of his Conn Constellations to an ardent fan, Roy Hobson, whose son, Paul, entrusted it to Lindgren a half-century later.
So with Maynard's Conns in hand, and in their honor, Lindgren leads not a mere big band but a Big Constellation on Spirits 2, The Unrecorded Fox, Lindgren's second homage to his peerless predecessor whose nickname was "the fox." As with the earlier one, Spirits, Lindgren plays "in the spirit of Maynard Ferguson" on a number of horns including "snake" and "tricky" trumpets, flugelhorn, "firebird" (a trumpet with valves and slide), valve trombone and "superbone" (a trombone with valves and slide). The two-CD set consists of songs performed at various times but never recorded by Ferguson's groups, leaning toward the later years when MF supplemented his jazz repertoire with well-known pop tunes to draw a new and younger audience.
Even though Ferguson's impetus for doing so is clear and understandable, to these ears this rock/funk period was far removed from the apex of his long and rewarding career. While the charts, by Keith Mansfield, Adrian Drover,
Dusko Goykovich
trumpetb.1931
Stan Kenton
piano1911 - 1979
Completing the program are themes by Jimmy Webb ("Didn't We," "Wichita Lineman," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"), Carole King ("It's Too Late," "You've Got a Friend"), the Beatles' George Harrison ("Something"), Elton John ("Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"),
Michel Legrand
piano1932 - 2019
Track Listing
em>Disc 1 -- Down Home Feelin’; God Bless the Child; It’s Too Late; Soul Brothers; Didn’t We; Something; You’ve Got a Friend; El Vendre. Disc 2 -- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me; Wichita Lineman; Doo’s Blues; The Windmills of Your Mind; You’ve Made Me So Very Happy; By the Time I Get to Phoenix; Return to MacArthur Park; Eleanor Rigby.
Personnel
(Collective) – Lasse Lindgren: leader, trumpet, flugelhorn, superbone, valve trombone; Antonio Gecek: trumpet; Darko Sedak Bencic: trumpet; Zvonimir Bajevic: trumpet; Klas Nilsson: trumpet; Johnny Olson: trumpet; Jocke Nilsson: trumpet; Fredrik Davidsson: trumpet; Andreas Marinella: alto sax; Johan Borgstrom: alto sax; Mario Bocic: tenor sax; Vojkan Jacic: tenor sax; John Nilsson: tenor sax; Per Lang: tenor sax; Damir Horvat: baritone sax; Erik Kristoffersson: baritone sax; Marin Ferketin: trombone; Miron Hauser: trombone; Niclas Rydh: trombone; Fredrik Wiklund: trombone; Ivan Aleksijevic: piano; Stefan Wingefors: piano; Goran Rukavina: acoustic, electric bass; Peter Janson: acoustic, electric bass; Bruno Domiter: drums; Adam Ross: drums; Mikael Andersson: percussion; Valerija Nikolovska: vocals.
Album information
Title: The Unrecorded Fox | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: Nilento Records
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