Drunk Jumps
El Cazador de Luz – vol. 2
DRUNK JUMPS
PUBLISHED BY QUADRANT RECORDS LABEL
Joan Monné – Piano, Gorka Garay – Tenor Sax, Dee Jay Foster – Double Bass
Néstor Giménez Orchestra presents Consagració (Rite) (Jazz Granollers 2019): the tribute to one of the most important works in the history of music.
Rite is a commission of the Auditori de Barcelona that becomes a new adventure, modern and transgressor, where 22 musicians interpret 14 pieces of the catalan composer inspired in The Rite of spring of Igor Stravinsky.
Modern music and classical music shake hands in a huge surprising jazz orchestra project.
Néstor Giménez, piano
Adrià Plana, guitar
Vic Moliner, bass
Joan Terol, drums
Gabriel Amargant, soprano sax
Marcel·lí Bayer, alto sax
Santi de la Rubia, tenor sax
Gorka Garay, terno sax
Pere Miró, baritone sax
Jaume Peña, trumpet
Òscar Latorre, trumpet
Jordi Guasp, horn
Albert Costa, trombone
Juan Rodríguez, tuba
Pablo Selnik, flute
Carla Suárez, oboe
Pau Domènech, clarinet
Laura Serra, fagot
Carlota Amargós, violin
Ana Fernández, violin
Uixi Amargós, viola
Marçal Ayats, cello
Personnel:
Pep Garau, Julián Sánchez, Iván González, Pol Padrós, Natsuko Sugao (trumpets & flugelhorns), Vicent Pérez, Aram Montagut, Rita Payés (trombones), Amaiur González (tuba), Joan Mas (ato sax), Miguel ‘Pintxo’ Villar (soprano, alto & tenor sax) Gorka Garay (clarinet, flute, alto flute), Albert Cirera, Santi De la Rubia (soprano & tenor saxes), Marcel·lí Bayer (ato & baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet), Luís Rocha (bass clarinet) Jaume Llombart (guitar), Albert Bover, Marco Mezquida (piano, keyboard), Marc Cuevas, Pau Sala (bass), Ramon Prats, Roger Gutiérrez (drums).
Guests: Enrique Oliver (tenor sax on #1,4 & 5), Jorge Rossy (vibes on #1 & 5, drums on #6), Félix Rossy (trumpet on #5).
Recorded at Sala Omega, Taller de Músics, Barcelona, January 4 & 5, 2017
Recording engineer: David Casamitjana
Assistant: Marc Sangés
Mixed & mastered by David Casamitjana & Toni Castaño at Espai Sonor Montoliu, Montoliu de Segarra, June 2017
Artwork: Ana Golobart
Photography: Alexandra Garzón
Produced by Toni Vaquer
Executive producer: Jordi Pujol
“Vaquer came up through David Mengual’s admired Free Spirits Big Band in Barcelona, but arranging skills like these are surely God-given. Most of the compositions are by band members, with La Hormiga credited to special guest Jorge Rossy, but it’s Vaquer’s vision that holds the project together. The sound-world is fascinating: reminiscent of Mike Westbrook’s Metropolis-era tone-poems in the more abstract passages, but opening out into full-throated swing. If it’s the distribution of brass that lends to the former impression, it’s the almost Kentonish (or Schuller-ish) handling of reeds that delivers the latter. All with a hint of rock in the background, as the Hendrix-inspired band name suggests.
The overture is full of strange sounds and what sound like sequencer fills, though they may be produced acoustically. Everyone’s encouraged, or takes permission to play in non-idiomatic ways. Guitarist Llombart opens his own Cincuatres with some retuned effects before revealing a big romantic ballad that implies threes over fours. Elsewhere, as on Sugao’s Preludio and Sala’s unusual Not Just The Blues, time is handled imaginatively and with real grace.
It’s a long record, but for once the threat of a volume two turns into real promise and anticipation. This is about as exciting an ensemble date as I’ve heard in a dog’s age, up there with Either/Or, the Dorf and all the others that prove big bands are currently enjoying a Jurassic Park moment.”
Brian Morton (November, 2017)
Jazz Journal Magazine
Guillermo klein: Conductor
Gorka Garay: tenor, alt and soprano sax.
Albert Comaleras: alt sax and flute.
Adrià Bauzó: flute, tenor and soprano sax.
Xavi Molina: clarinet, tenor and soprano sax.
Jordi Cases: clarinet and bariton sax.
Trumpets: Ivo Oller, Jaume Torner, Roqui Albero, Jordi Fontanillas.
Trombones: Carlos Martín, Jordi Gual, Eduard Prats.
Guitar: Francesc Ubanell.
Piano: Àlex Carbonell.
Bass: Oriol Casadevall.
Drums: Ramon Prats.
Trumpets: Jaume Peña, Marçal Muñoz, Pol Padròs, Pol Omedes.
Trombons: Jordi Gòmez, Albert Costa, Marc Joaniquet, Joan Palacio.
Alto Sax: David Carrasco, Marcel.li Bayer.
Tenor Sax: Gorka Garay, Lluc Casares.
Bariton Sax: Cristian Serret.
Guitar: Adrià Plana.
Piano: Josep Perxes.
Percusion: Carlos Cuenca.
Drums: Joan Terol.
Bass: Miguel Serna.
