Peter Leitch - New Life - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

(2-CD set) When guitarist Peter Leitch heard the diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer in 2012, and the grim prognosis of 11 months to live, he made the hard choice of undergoing potentially career-ending treatment rather than succumb to the disease. Eight years later, thanks to his indomitable spirit and a brilliant oncologist, he is still live-unable to play his instrument but still driven to create music. Peter has re-invented himself as a composer, arranger, and director of a 14-piece orchestra. Celebrating this transformation, he has released New Life, the Peter Leitch New Life Orchestra's debut recording, Jazz House 7006/7. InchAfter coming to terms with the loss of the use of my left arm as the result of the chemo and radiation,Inch Peter says, InchIt occurred to me that I was free from the tyranny of the jazz guitar-of having to practice every day. I realized I could create music that was not limited to four fingers on six strings. I began to write.Inch Over the next two years, Peter composed, arranged, and orchestrated the 17 pieces that comprise this two-CD set. Encouraged by his friends and the success of a series of jazz club performances, the band went into the studio! Listeners will find a distillation of Inchall the music I've ever heard-from hard bop to rural blues to more modern abstract elements.Inch Album Tracks 1. Mood for Max (For Dr. Maxim Kreditor) 2. Portrait of Sylvia 3. Sorta, Kinda 4. Monk's Circle 5. Round Midnight 6. Penumbra 7. Brilliant Blue, Twilight Blue 8. Fulton Street Suite 9. Exhilaration 10. Elevanses 11. Clifford Jordan 12. Ballad for Charles Davis 13. The Minister's Son 14. Spring Is Here 15. Back Story 16. Tutweiler 2001 17. The Long Walk Home