The Last Waltz

Music played by the 'Ray Hamilton Ballroom Orchestra' offering a repertoire of 15 songs for standard ballroom style, 'slow waltz'. The collection includes a range of well chosen topics, mostly composed as slow waltzes, but not always originally composed as such, but arranged for the interpretation of the Hamilton's orchestra. It is a healthy choice, well arranged and interpreted to enjoy a session of more than fifty minutes of play or on the dance floor.

For roughly half a decade, from 1968 through 1975, the Band was one of the most popular and influential rock groups in the world, their music embraced by critics (and, to a somewhat lesser degree, the public) as seriously as the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Their albums were analyzed and reviewed as intensely as any records by their one-time employer and sometime mentor Bob Dylan. Although the Band retired from touring after The Last Waltz and disbanded several years later, their legacy thrived for decades, perpetuated by the bandmates' respective solo careers as well as the enduring strength of the Band's catalog.

Les frères Réchard, Loïc à la guitare et Ivan à la contrebasse, ont quitté Caen, où ils ont débuté en beauté, le premier avec Alex Tassel et Emmanuel Duprey, pour Paris où ils ont retrouvé le gratin du jazz hexagonal et international, participé aux « nuits blanches » du Petit Opportun et à d'autres expériences entre afro jazz et électro. On les avait entendus en trio, entre Monk et Metheny, avec Louis « Bao » Lao à la batterie au premier festival PAN ! .

It is unusual when two iconic musical influences have a deep-rooted history. Bob Dylan revolutionized the folk industry in the early sixties. Around the same time, a group consisting of four Canadians and one U.S. Southerner were cutting their rock and roll teeth as the back-up band to Ronnie Hawkins. An epiphany for rock and roll occurred at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when Dylan went electric and outraged the folk community. A subsequent tour supported by The Hawks (later renamed The Band) became a watershed moment for modern music.

Frank Rosolino - The Last Recording (1978) {See Breeze Jazz SBJ-3080 rel 2006}
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© 1978, 2006 See Breeze Jazz | SBJ-3080
Jazz / Cool / Bop / Mainstream Jazz / Trombone

It took Frank Rosolino's widow Diane many years to find a label willing to release this music, and that is understandable. Frank Rosolino, one of jazz's greatest trombonists, went crazy on November 26, 1978, shooting two of his sons and killing himself. The completely unexpected turn of events from a trombonist who was witty and always seemed in good spirits was a shock to the jazz world, but he had apparently suffered from depression for years. In addition, the music on The Last Recording, recorded less than four months before the horrible ending, features Rosolino using a Multivider on his horn, an electronic device that gave him a sound in three octaves at once.