Name: Low Thresholds by Andy Middleton
Duration: 7 min 28 s
Description: A tune from the first CD recorded by the collective band Alan Jones, François Theberge, Paul Imm and I had in the 1990's called The Fensters. What a fun band, and a great learning experience playing all over Europe together.

I love this album soooooo much... Bought it in Prague on a school trip when I was 17... Lost it tho. Hopefully I'll find it one day Thanks for posting...

hi Mike, so glad you found this CD! We'll try to get it available for digital downloading because it is out of print now.

Rose Tree - HR Bigband

recorded by Qsome big band
- Berlin was awarded 3rd prize at Helsinki International Big Band Composing Contest 2021
- Finalist at Barga Jazz Composition Contest 2021
- Awarded by the European Composers Project of Subway Jazz Orchestra Cologne
- 1st Ise-Shima International Popular Music Composition Competition Winning Work 2022

Consoulin'

Berlin

live @ Tonhalle St.Gallen (2023)

Elena Neff Zhunke - Violine
Brandon Garbot - Violine
Ricardo Gaspar - Viola
Pierre Deppe - Cello
Aline Spaltenstein - Kontrabass
Raissa Zhunke - Piano

Far Away (comp. & arr.: Michael Neff, played by Sinfonietta Sankt Gallen)

A tune from the first CD recorded by the collective band Alan Jones, François Theberge, Paul Imm and I had in the 1990's called The Fensters. What a fun band, and a great learning experience playing all over Europe together.

Low Thresholds

ANDY MIDDLETON is one of the very top-tier saxophonists living in Europe today. Imaginative and adventurous virtuosity spans an incredibly wide breadth of expression -- from fierce power to tender warmth, lyrical yet rhythmically driving, masterful and inspired. His compositions, harmonically modern and melodic yet clearly rooted in the jazz tradition, provide the perfect setting. This unique voice as a player, arranger and composer has led jazz icons such as Ralph Towner, Kenny Wheeler and David Holland to collaborate with him.  He has also performed and recorded with a long list of artists including Billy Hart, Maria Schneider, Richie Beirach, Renee Rosnes, Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Lionel Hampton, Bob Mintzer, Joey Calderazzo, John Abercrombie, Scott Colley and Adam Nussbaum.

Born in Harrisburg, PA, Andy received his masters degree in composition at the University of Miami.  After nearly 20 years in the New York jazz scene, he relocated to Vienna, Austria in 2006, where he is Professor of Jazz Composition, Jazz Theory and Jazz Saxophone at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna.


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