Name: Too Pretty for Words by Paul Read
Duration: 7 min 4 s
Description: Commissioned by the Jazz Mechanics, a wonderful big band from Brampton, ON Canada. This performance is by the University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra. Solos are by Dan Easty, Steve McFarlane, and Harley Card.

Jericho Rose

Composed, arranged & produced by Amit Poznansky © 2013
Guitar: Lonny Ziblat
Violin, Viola: Yael Shachar 
Photo: "Time Laps" by Gilad Benari
http://gilad.deviantart.com/art/Time-Laps-8884248

Don't Look Back

soprano sax, clarinet, flute and piccolo - Ben Kono
tenor sax, clarinet and flute - Sam Sadigursky
bass clarinet and bassoon - Alden Banta

trumpet - Dan Urness
trumpet - Matt Holman
trombone - Mike Boschen
bass trombone - Jeff Nelson

violin 1  - Joyce Hammann
violin 2 - Mary Whitaker
viola - Lois Martin
cello - Robert Burkhart

vibraphone - Patricia Franceschy
bass - Mark Helias
drums/percussion - Satoshi Takeishi

conductor - JC Sanford

recorded at Systems Two Recording Studio by engineer - Mike Marciano
editing and mixing - David Travers-Smith

Violin Concerto - Mvt 1 - 60s Teaser

Abulele (2015 / 2016)

Music Composed and produced by Frank Ilfman
Music Orchestrated & Conducted by: Matthew Slater
Score Supervisor: Amanda Street For DNA Music LIMITED
Music performed by: London Metropolitan Orchestra
Orchestra Leader: Rita Manning (Violin)
Orchestra principals: Ralph de Souza (Violin)
David Daniels (Cello)
Chris Laurence (Double Bass) 
Tim Jones (Horn)
John Barclay (Trumpet)
Pete Beachill (Tenor Trombone) 
Dave Stewart (Bass Trombone) 
Owen Slade (Tuba)
James Marsh (Modulation Instruments) 
 Rob Barry (Percussion)
Frank Ilfman (Piano, Slide Harp, Waterphone, Metal Scraper, Pipe Holders Kit, Percussion, Electronics)
Orchestral Contractor: Andy Brown 
Music Score assistant: James Griffiths
Score recorded by: Paul Golding
Score mixed by: Casey Stone
Score recorded and mixed at Air studios, London, UK 
Protools Operator: Fiona Cruickshank

All rights reserved to Frank Ilfman / Papa Legba Recordings LTD 2016

Abulele Main Theme

01 Birdlike

Commissioned by the Jazz Mechanics, a wonderful big band from Brampton, ON Canada. This performance is by the University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra. Solos are by Dan Easty, Steve McFarlane, and Harley Card.

Awakening

Too Pretty for Words

Backyard

Abstractly nostalgic. Kind of a Herbie Hancock Headhunters groove?

Compositions and Arrangements

Out There

Fourth movement of an extended work for jazz orchestra composed in 1978. Performers are the Humber College Big Band. Piano solo is by Stacey MacGregor.

Northern Tour

Suite No. 3 - Mvt 4 - Children's Song

Made with Ample Guitar M, http://www.amplesound.net

AGM-Return

Original composition for jazz orchestra.
©2010 Paul Read
From my CD, "Arc-en-ciel" by the Paul Read Orchestra (PRO).
Released in 2013 on Addo Records
http://addorecords.com
Available for sale on CDBaby

Arc-en-ciel

Waltz for Kelly (featuring Tara Davidson)

Toronto has been home for most of my life. I spent a brief time living in Boston while going to school at Berklee College in the early 1970s. My career has been a mix of teaching, composing, arranging and performance (piano and saxophone). Now retired from academic life, I was Director of Jazz Performance at the University of Toronto and prior to that Director of Music at Humber College. 

Influences are so varied a list is nearly pointless. I listen to and love music of a broad range of styles and genres. Mentors have been Gordon Delamont, Joe Viola, Clifford Poole, Pat LaBarbera, Jim McNeely and I have been strongly influenced by the piano playing of Herbie Hancock. And so many others (Chick, Keith). On saxophone I was obsessed with Trane for a long period of time (still am- who isn’t) and a long list of others. Early to mid French composers have much of my attention these days, Ravel, Debussy, Faure, Durufle, Dutilleux, Poulenc, Debussy, Jolivet. So, I said the list was pointless and it is. So I’ll stop realizing that I have mentioned 3% of whom I wish to.

I had my own 18 piece Jazz Orchestra (Paul Read Orchestra) in Toronto for a number of years and recorded one CD. Also I had a septet with Trish Colter (vocalist) for 20 years or so. I played piano and was her main arranger. That group included Pat LaBarbera, Chase Sanborn, Pat Collins, Kevin Dempsey along with Trish and me.

More info (if you need it)...www.paulread.ca

Too Pretty for Words

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