Orchestra (album)

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Orchestra
Orchestra (Eberhard Weber album).jpg
Studio album by
Released1988
RecordedMay–August 1988
StudioTonstudio Bauer
Ludwigsburg, W. Germany
Genre Jazz
Length50:19
Label ECM
ECM 1374
Producer Manfred Eicher
Eberhard Weber chronology
Chorus
(1984)
Orchestra
(1988)
Pendulum
(1993)

Orchestra is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber, recorded between May and August 1988 and released on ECM later that year. The octet features brass section Herbert Joos, Anton Jillich, Rudolf Diebetsberger, Thomas Hauschild, Wolfgang Czelustra, Andreas Richter, Winfried Rapp, Franz Stagl. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 2 stars, saying, "Glorious sound, little 'pure jazz' content though." [3]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings state, Weber "splits the album between bass soliloquies and counterpoint with a chilly brass section, yet the prettiest piece on the disc is the synthesizer tune 'One Summer's Evening'." [4]

Tyran Grillo, writing for ECM blog Between Sound and Space, commented: "Orchestra is Weber at his purest. A lovely exposition of his talents, technical and melodic alike. Certainly not the one you'll want to start with, but by no means a shabby place to spend the night before continuing on your journey." [6]

Track listing

All compositions by Eberhard Weber.

  1. "Seven Movements" – 12:20
  2. "Broken Silence" – 1:59
  3. "Before Dawn" – 5:23
  4. "Just a Moment" – 2:35
  5. "Air" – 4:16
  6. "Ready Out There?" – 5:09
  7. "Too Early to Leave" – 3:07
  8. "One Summer's Evening" – 4:09
  9. "A Daydream" – 3:22
  10. "Trio" – 3:58
  11. "Epilogue" – 4:01

Personnel

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References

  1. ECM discography. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  2. "Eberhard Weber - Orchestra". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Wynn, R. Allmusic Review. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
  4. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1477. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 473.
  6. Grillo, Tyran (January 21, 2012). "Eberhard Weber: Orchestra". Between Sound and Space. Retrieved September 20, 2022.