World's Greatest Jazz Band of Yank Lawson & Bob Ha - In Concert at Carnegie Hall - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In this new album by violinist and composer Diego Conti, the minimalist ensemble (violin and percussion) becomes a mean and a pretext to search new effects in the simplest and most primordial forms of sound. The extreme contrast between the frequencies, the timbres and the different InchattacksInch of the sounds of the instruments create atmospheres with which the composer gives life to imaginary planets, visited in his frequent science fiction readings, his great passion. Performed on percussion by Laura Mancini and Gianni Maestrucci, and on the violin by Laura Marzadori, star of the Italian music scene, first violin of the Teatro alla Scala orchestra in Milan, and already on Tactus' albums dedicated to Ermanno Wolf Ferrari (TC872303) and Leone Sinigaglia (TC861901).

Trumpeter Yank Lawson & bassist Bob Haggart have assembled 2 separate 9-piece groups, one playing the Gershwin repertoire (feat. Billy Butterfield, Eddie Miller & Roger Kellaway), the other playing the Rodgers & Hart repertoire (feat. John Best, Peanuts Hucko & Carl Fontana)

Great New Orleans vocalists Topsy Chapman and Barbara Shorts join Lars Edegran and his band on this 14 track album recorded in New Orleans in April of 2005. Features Duke Heitger, Trumpet; Sammy Rimington, Clarinet & Alto Sax; Fred Lonzo, Trombone; Robert Harris, Trombone; Bill Huntington, Bass; Shannon Powell, Drums.