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Plug plug plug: I'm getting to play the premiere of NYC trumpeter Nadje Noordhuis' (https://www.nadjenoordhuis.com) music for large ensemble tonight with the Hart House Jazz Orchestra tonight and Sunday!  She's planning to record the music next year and this is a test run. Some of the pieces are really quite exquisite and she's a lovely individual.Also, as a fellow trumpet player, it's pretty awesome to hear someone play the instrument so vocally. Chops for days but tasteful as hell. Any Toronto jazz goons, feel free to show up. Tonight's is at Hart House, Sunday at the Rex.
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I saw the Vanguard Orchestra in NY last October and wasn't really impressed. It didn't help that the trumpet section were basically just bullshitting with each other all night but the music was really boring and they didn't play it with much vigour. I'm not the biggest TJ/MLBB fan, though, and I don't really like how their sort of later-era pseudo-jazz has become the standard for big band music nowadays. I went mostly for my girlfriend at the time. I got to see Jazz at Lincoln Center do the music of Billy Strayhorn, though, so I'm pretty okay with that. I'm an ex-York, U of T hopeful student.
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Dec 19, 2011 08:30
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