Artist: The Revival Ensemble
Songs: Amad + Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) [composers: Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn]
Recorded at The Tranzac's Main Hall (TONE Festival), June 17, 2018.
The Revival Ensemble - Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues)
One of TONE Festival's more ambitious undertakings, this event saw reedist Ted Crosby wrangling a stage full of local improvisers (and incorporating the members of openers Sick Boss Löve) to form a thirteen-member orchestra interpreting (and bursting outward from) Duke Ellington's The Far East Suite. Organized into three "days", these mini-suites stretched out the original themes, deepened the grooves and gave plenty of chances for individual members to shine with solos.
As far as I could tell, the ensemble was:
- Ted Crosby - reeds
- Lisen Rylander Löve - reeds
- Karen Ng - reeds
- Alan Mackie - violin
- Lina Allemano - trumpet
- Rebecca Hennessy - trumpet
- Ryan Brouwer - trumpet
- Michael Davidson - vibraphone
- Scott Thomson - trombone
- Harley Card - guitar
- Cole Schmidt - guitar
- James Meger - bass
- Dan Gaucher - drums
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