New Big Band album from the Callum Au Big Band

callumau

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Hi everyone,

I'm just writing to let you all know that my big band, the Callum Au Big Band, has just launched its debut album, entitled 'Something's Coming' - now available to order via the Callum Au Big Band's website -http://www.callumaumusic.com/callum-au-big-band/album/ . You can see a short teaser trailer of a few of the album's highlights here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOCDiGQWuU.

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This album was recorded at Angel Studios, London in late 2012, and fully features the 17 members of the big band, alongside special guests: vocalists Emma Smith and Iain Mackenzie, flautist Gareth Lockrane, and saxophonists Peter Long and Nigel Hitchcock. The band's drummer is Ed Richardson, the youngest ever drummer to play with the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Orchestra, and a current member of R+B artist Kwabs's band.

The centrepiece of the album is Callum’s new West Side Story Suite for Big Band – a continuous work in six movements based on some of the most famous melodies from Leonard Bernstein’s musical. It reinvents the well-known and popular music from the show, with each movement giving a new big band twist to Bernstein’s melodies.

In addition to the suite, the album features a set of new commissions specially written for the band: Callum Au’s ‘Gentleman Jack’; Freddie Gavita’s ‘Beloved’ and UK flute virtuoso and master composer/arranger Gareth Lockrane’s ‘Roots’. The album’s first track, Callum’s arrangement of the Harry Warren standard “September in the Rain”, is a very conscious tribute to the great American big bands of Count Basie, Nelson Riddle, and Thad Jones, some of the band’s greatest influences.

If you're interested, please visit my site - http://www.callumaumusic.com/callum-au-big-band/album/ - or send me a message - and I'll be in touch!

Thanks a lot for reading - would love to know what you all think!

Callum
 
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