Orchestras (live)

Resonance Records with the cooperation of National Public Radio (NPR) is proud to announce the release of Sarah Vaughan's Live At Rosy’s, New Orleans on March 25th, 2016 The deluxe 2-CD set is comprised exclusively of newly discovered recordings by “Sassy” capturing the legendary jazz singer’s live performance at Rosy’s Jazz Club on May 31, 1978.

New Model Army are a band who continue to thrive outside of any singular genre. Throughout their long and storied career, they have taken the road less travelled, shunning fame and instead, with each successive album, pushing boundaries of creativity. It is the same music-first approach that has led to this year’s “Sinfonia”. Recorded at Tempodrom, Berlin on July 15th 2022, with Sinfonia Leipzig and conducted by Cornelius During, it may seem like an obvious evolution, however, in true New Model Army style they have broken the barriers between band and orchestra, redefining that relationship and defying expectation. All songs have been arranged for orchestra by long-time friend and guest violinist Shir-Ran Yinon, who, in collaboration with the band, created something unique but staying true to New Model Army.

The Norwegian Marius Neset has split his career between cool Scandi jazz and adventurous composition for symphony orchestras, gaining considerable acclaim for both. Here he combines the two, putting his quartet in the centre of a complex soundscape played by the versatile Norwegian Radio Orchestra under the British conductor Geoffrey Paterson. Mostly a series of musical portraits, it is an ear-opening, often beautiful listen. Complex work is drawn from the simplest of themes. A Day in the Sparrow’s Life imitates the jerky, carefree behaviour of the bird with a folk dance that expands into a skirmish of contrapuntal melodies. The two-part It Looks Like Glass is a brilliant evocation of the material’s occasionally sinister sheen.