NDR Big Band plays Roger Hanschel: Eigenheiten

NDR Big Band
Steffen Schorn, cond
Roger Hanschel, as

1. Eigenheiten I
Soloists: Ingmar Heller, b; Christof Lauer, ss; Reiner Winterschladen, tp; Stefan Lottermann, tb; Ronny Graupe, gt2. Warming Up
Soloists: Christof Lauer, ts; Ingolf Burkhardt, tp; Dan Gottshall, tb; Boris Netsvetaev, p; Roger Hanschel, as
3. Jandor
Soloists: Gabriel Coburger, ts, Roger Hanschel, as; Ronny Graupe, gt
4. Interlude
Soloist: Roger Hanschel, as
5. Extrembiose
Soloists: Klaus Heidenreich, tb; Peter Bolte, Roger Hanschel, as; Boris Netsvetaev, p
6. Inner Vibes of Love
Soloist: Roger Hanschel, as

Saxophonists Roger Hanschel and Steffen Schorn share a long musical relationship since 1981, when they founded the saxophone quartet "Die Kölner Saxophon Mafia", so Steffen Schorn, known as a prolific arranger and composer, was a natural choice for this project, transferring Hanschel´s complex compositions to the big band format.

Roger´s latest album features something completely different: Roger Hanschel Solo "Karmic Episode".

 

HR Big Band feat. Steffen Schorn: Tuvawabohu! – Mongolia live at 41st German Jazzfestival Frankfurt 2010

Steffen Schorn | cond, arr, bs
Nara Naranbaatar Purevdor | Moorin Hoor (Horsefiddle), Hoomii (Overtone singing)
Epi Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig | Horsefiddlebass, Umzad
Badma Badamkhorol Sandandamba | voc
Bodek Janke | perc
Frank Wellert, Thomas Vogel, Martin Auer, Axel Schlosser | tp
Günter Bollmann, Peter Feil, Christian Jaksjø | tb
Manfred Honetschläger | bass-tb
Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn, Oliver Leicht, Tony Lakatos, Julian Argüelles, Rainer Heute | reeds
Martin Scales | g;  Peter Reiter | p; Thomas Heidepriem | b; Jean Paul Höchstädter | dr

recorded live at HR Sendesaal Frankfurt, October 28, 2010

1. Introduction
2. F.A. (Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig)
Soloists: Peter Feil, tb; Oliver Leicht, alto clarinet; Bodek Janke, perc
3. Far Away (Schorn)
Soloists: Steffen Schorn, bass-fl; Martin Scales, gt; Bodek Janke, tabla
4. Gii´ngo
5. Mongolian Love Song (Gool´dingor)
6. Moorun Torg´un (Horse Race) (Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig)
Soloists: Axel Schlosser, tp; Tony Lakatos, ts
7. Sana ch´riin (Naranbaatar Purevdor)
8. Aryuna - Die Heilige (Schorn)

For this very special project Steffen Schorn arranged original Mongolian folk songs for the HR Big Band featuring three soloists from Mongolia playing horse fiddle and doing some very nice overtone singing. I have no idea how to spell the titles of these tracks correctly, I wrote down just what I heard, but due to my bad Mongolian I might have spelled them wrong... can someone help?

Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig is one of the most active, open minded and creative Mongolian musicians and has played with a lot of different people from all over the world.

Steffen Schorn & WDR Big Band live at WDR Jazz Cologne 2009

Steffen Schorn - Conductor, Arrangements
Heiner Wiberny, Karolina Strassmayer, Olivier Peters, Paul Heller, Jens Neufang - Reeds
John Marshall, Wim Both, Andy Haderer, Rob Bruynen, Klaus Osterloh - Trumpets
Ludwig Nuss, Uli Plettendorff, Bernt Laukamp, Mattis Cederberg - Trombones
Paul Shigihara - Guitar; Frank Chastenier - Piano
John Goldsby - Bass; Hans Dekker - Drums
Special Guests: Lars Andreas Haug, Tuba; Bodek Janke, Percussion

1. Celso (Hermeto Pascoal)
2. One Year Later (Steffen Schorn)
3. Wo kommt denn des her? (Steffen Schorn)
4. The Opener (Steffen Schorn)

recorded live at WDR Funkhaus Köln, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, October 31, 2009

Composer, Conductor and Professor of Jazz Saxophone Steffen Schorn received the WDR Jazz Award 2009 for composition.
This is the highest honor awarded for improvised music in Germany. The concert with the WDR Big Band arranged and conducted by Steffen Schorn took place October 30 in Cologne.
Together with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band (hr-Big Band) he recorded "Tudo E Som - All is sound - The Music of Hermeto Pascoal" released this year

geir lysne ensemble "the grieg code" live at NDR Hamburg 2009

Morten Halle (sax, fl) Tore Brunborg (sax, fl) Geir Lysne (arr, sax, fl) Steffen Schorn (bs, cl, fl), Eckhard Baur (tp, flh, voc) Jesper Riis (tp, flh, lyrics) Arkady Shilkloper (french horn, flh) Helge Sunde (tb) Lars A. Haug (tu) Vladyslav Sendecki (kb, electronics) Bjørn Kjellemyr (b) Andreas Bye (dr) Terje Isungset (perc, mouth harp, voice)

recorded live at Studio Rolf Liebermann, NDR, Hamburg Germany, April 16, 2009

1. Transad Nias
2. Vebburedong
3. Glossi Vangse
4. Dose Das

The Edvard Grieg Society commissioned Lysne to write The Grieg Code for their congress in Grieg’s birthplace, Bergen, Norway. Lysne had already paid homage on Boahjenásti with his composition “GeirG” (Grieg spelled backwards, the first four letters being Lysne’s first name). The piece is a re-fashioning of the theme from the movement “The Death Of Ase” in Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” Suite No. 1.

Lysne emphasizes that the pieces in The Grieg Code are not jazz versions of Grieg’s compositions. He employs set piano, string, and vocal pieces from Grieg within his own compositions, but he re-works them to the point that they are unrecognisable. Lysne transforms a soprano canto line into a cool bass line, and a violin phrase becomes a drum groove. Lysne calls this procedure "musical anagrams". An anagram is normally a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase (Listen = Silent).
The studio album with this program was released on ACT: