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Rob Madna Box

Dutch Jazz Orchestra

Rob Madna Box

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917326727
Catnr: CR 73267
Release date: 01 October 2008
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Challenge Records
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0608917326727
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CR 73267
Release date
01 October 2008
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John Ruocco /Jerry van Rooijen (disc 4) : conductor | Albert Beltman, Hans Meijdam, Simon Rigter, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen, Nils van Haften /Ab Schaap (disc 4): saxophones | Friederike Darius: flute | Erik Veldkamp, Peter van Soest, Mike Booth, Ruud Breuls, Martijn de Laat, Ray Bruinsma, Jan Hollander, Jan Wessels /Jan Oosthof, Gerard Kleyn (disc 4) : trumpet | Martijn Sohier, Hansjörg Fink, Ilja Reijngoud, Bert Boeren, Martin van den Berg /Ben van Dijk (disc 4) : trombone | Rob van Bavel, Karel Boehlee: keyboards | Martijn van Iterson: guitar | Jan Voogd, Jos Machtel /Frans van der Hoeven (disc 4): bass | Theo de Jongh: bass guitar | Marcel Serierse/ Erik Ineke (disc 4): drums

Guest soloists: Tom Beek, Ferdinand Povel: tenor saxophone | Ack van Rooijen, Jan Wessels: flugelhorn | Maurice Kliphuis: horn | Disc 4 featuring: Rob Madna: piano, synthesizer, trumpet, flugelhorn | Toon Roos: soprano and tenor saxophones (disc 5): Rob Madna Trio: Rob Madna: piano, synthesizers, trumpet | Frans van der Hoeven: bass | Eric Ineke/ Dré Pallemaerts: drumsFour discs of this set contain the bigband arrangements of Rob Madna, played by the Dutch Jazz Orchestra, the fourth disc featuring Madna in person as soloist. The fifth contains a reissue of trio recordings, where Rob reveals himself even more as multi-instrumentalist. According to Madna, his sources where Count Basie, Oliver Nelson, Gil Evans, and most notably the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. By the mid-1960s Madna’s reputation as a true musician’s musician was such that Thad Jones asked him to join his orchestra as a pianist and arranger. Rob in all honesty felt that he was not original enough to bring something new to the sound of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. Jones, who only worked with the best, protested vehemently, but Madna wouldn’t budge.
Naast het opduiken van werk van Amerikaanse componisten als Billy Strayhorn en Gil Evans heeft het Dutch Jazz Orchestra zichzelf ook de taak gesteld het Nederlandse jazz-erfgoed veilig te stellen. Dat doet men bijvoorbeeld op deze box met vijf cd’s waarin de composities en big band-arrangementen van de Nederlandse pianist Rob Madna centraal staan. Naast drie cd’s met nieuw opgedoken en zorgvuldig gereconstrueerde werken bevat deze uitgave de twee cd’s die eerder verschenen onder de titel Update. (HB)
Eine 5-CD Box als Verbeugung vor Rob Madna (1931-2003), der gleichsam als Begr�nder des modernen Jazz in Holland gilt. Standards, von Madna arrangiert, aber auch Originale Madna's werden auf 3 CDs von der bekannten Big Band interpretiert, CD 4 ist ein Re-release einer DJO-Aufnahme mit Madna an Piano und Trompete, CD 5 eine Trio-Aufnahme, ebenfalls ein Re-release einer vergriffenen CD.

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Dutch Jazz Orchestra

The Dutch Jazz Orchestra is focused on special projects within the realm of jazz. They are specialised in performing and recording obscure, and often unknown, works by the unsung heroes of jazz. The Dutch Jazz Orchestra has quit a list of rarely performed works of composers, as Mary Lou Williams, George Handy, Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Claude Thornhill, The Boyd Raeburn Orchestra, Duke Ellington and now Billy Strayhorn, on it’s name.And so in 1995 The Dutch Jazz Orchestra, lead by Jerry van Rooijen, started a new project and they released the CD “Portrait Of A Silk Threat” on which they presented unknown and never earlier recorded work of Billy Strayhorn. This CD became very successful.The Dutch Jazz Orchestra have been...
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The Dutch Jazz Orchestra is focused on special projects within the realm of jazz. They are specialised in performing and recording obscure, and often unknown, works by the unsung heroes of jazz. The Dutch Jazz Orchestra has quit a list of rarely performed works of composers, as Mary Lou Williams, George Handy, Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Claude Thornhill, The Boyd Raeburn Orchestra, Duke Ellington and now Billy Strayhorn, on it’s name.And so in 1995 The Dutch Jazz Orchestra, lead by Jerry van Rooijen, started a new project and they released the CD “Portrait Of A Silk Threat” on which they presented unknown and never earlier recorded work of Billy Strayhorn. This CD became very successful.The Dutch Jazz Orchestra have been busy recording new materials of Billy Strayhorn. This resulted in three cd’s, “So This Is Love”, “You Go To My Head” and “Something To Live For”.In 2002 musicologist Walter van de Leur optained his doctorate with a thesis on Billy Strayhorn called Something to Live For – The Music of Billy Strayhorn.

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Rob Madna

Pianist Rob Madna (The Hague,1931-2003) was fully self-taught. His professional musical career has severely suffered under his job as math teacher, that prompted him to reject offers of Thad Jones, Freddie Hubbard and Lucky Thompson to fill the piano bench on their European tours. First in 1985 he became involved in music full time, accepting to teach jazz piano at the Hilversum Conservatory. Yet he is regarded as one of the greatest Dutch jazz pianists, who unfortunately showed little interest in recording. The few records he made are very high rated in the jazz world. Dutch pianist and composer Rob Madna is considered one of the founders of modern jazz in postwar Holland. He was born June 8, 1931 and...
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Pianist Rob Madna (The Hague,1931-2003) was fully self-taught. His professional musical career has severely suffered under his job as math teacher, that prompted him to reject offers of Thad Jones, Freddie Hubbard and Lucky Thompson to fill the piano bench on their European tours. First in 1985 he became involved in music full time, accepting to teach jazz piano at the Hilversum Conservatory. Yet he is regarded as one of the greatest Dutch jazz pianists, who unfortunately showed little interest in recording. The few records he made are very high rated in the jazz world. Dutch pianist and composer Rob Madna is considered one of the founders of modern jazz in postwar Holland. He was born June 8, 1931 and passed away on April 5, 2003. Madna was a complete autodidact, who learned to play by listening to whatever records happened to be around the house: music of Teddy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, or a recording of George Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess.’ Together with neighborhood friends Ack en Jerry van Rooijen, Rob listened as much as he could to jazz and dance orchestras during the Second World War. After the war he heard the latest music from America, including bebop, which was to have a deep impact on his further musical growth. Apart from submerging himself in music, Madna developed a fascination for mathematics, and he decided to pursue a career as a mathematician rather than a musician. Rob always shunned the spotlights and a life on the road didn’t appeal to him. With what he considered his Asian relativism, he did not seek public recognition and much of his musical life would take place in relative invisibility. Nevertheless, Madna did perform with many jazz outfits, and subbed in many orchestras. He was deeply respected by his fellow musicians and those listeners who knew him.In 1955 he recorded for the first time, participating in the anthologies 'Jazz From Holland' and 'Jazz Behind the Dikes'. Among his more recent recordings are the 1996 CD 'Update', with his trio and The Dutch Jazz Orchestra, followed by a 2000 live recording issued in the Daybreak piano series 'En Blanc Et Noir'. In his long career Rob Madna played with luminaries such as Phil Woods, Dexter Gordon, Don Byas, Lucky Thompson and Freddie Hubbard. Rob Madna's greatest model was Miles Davis, Thad Jones being another particular inspiration. During the 2003 North Sea Jazz Festival he posthumously received the prestigious Bird Award for his complete works.
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