SONG & WIND - Live performance in Tivoli Garden’s Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark June 23th 2024

Live performance in Tivoli Garden’s Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark June 23th 2024 of SONG & WIND, composer Jakob Buchanan
Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir, Marilyn Mazur, percussion, Jakob Buchanan, Flugelhorn and Carsten Seyer-Hansen, conductor.

00:00 Intro
00:40 Part l Prelude
05:16 Part l ”Songs in the Air”
13:06 Part l Postlude
18:23 Part ll The Stones Make Sand Slow
30:54 Part lll If You Want To Hurt Someone
39:48 Part lV You Have Only Seen How I Begin
50:05 Part V Rain Falls

Ever since it quietly emerged on the international scene in the late ‘60s, Scandinavian jazz carved out for itself a distinctive niche. Drawing on the influence of Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Scandinavian jazz embraced a free, spacious, experimental, and contemplative aesthetic. It has also been open to modern or contemporary classical music and collaborations with European folk and ethnic-musicians. This is not OUR Recordings first journey into Scandinavian Jazz; the critically acclaimed album Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, with legendary trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, has proudly taken its place with other genre-defying Scandinavian jazz classics.
Composer, trumpet and flugelhorn player Jakob Buchanan writes music specifically with the musicians he is working with in mind. Joining him on this important project are regular collaborators the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, conductor Carsten Seyer-Hansen and percussionist Marilyn Mazur. Together they conjure landscapes of beauty, power and sometimes deep melancholy. Mazur’s panoply of percussion function as an emotional “basso continuo,” speaking a language built out of pure rhythm while Buchanan’s solos emerge almost like ancient cantilations from the choral/orchestral textures. The Aarhus Jazz Orchestra is carefully orchestrated, and the Copenhagen
Royal Chapel Choir provides an aura of ethereal beauty to this soundscape song and wind.
In every way, Buchanan’s Song & Wind is a worthy successor to his earlier award-winning Requiem, (also written with Marilyn Mazur and the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra in mind), a major work, expressive and full of beauty, drawing equally on the music of the past while charting a further course into the future.