01. I Wanna Go Home [06:41]
02. Buttermilk Sky [05:22]
03. Islands Of The Mind [06:14]
04. Rumfire [05:51]
05. Gold In The Cane (Intro) [01:17]
06. Gold In The Cane [04:29]
07. I Believe In [05:53]
08. Children Of The Sun [04:52]
09. Blue Abyss [08:14]
10. Creole Eyes [05:50]
11. Albatross Day [07:39]

Joe Sample: composer, piano, Fender Rhodes; 
Jorg Achim Keller: conductor, arranger; 
Nils Landgren: solo trombone; 
Thorsten Berkenstein: trumpet, flugelhorn; 
Ingolf Burkhardt: trumpet, flugelhorn; 
Claus Stotter: trumpet, flugelhorn; 
Reiner Winterschladen: trumpet, flugelhorn (1, 3-6, 9, 10); 
Dirk Lentschat: trumpet, flugelhorn (2, 7, 8, 11); 
Fiete Felsch: alto, soprano sax, flute, piccolo flute, clarinet;
Peter Bolte: alto sax, flute, clarinet; 
Sebastian Gille: tenor sax, clarinet; 
Frank Delle: tenor sax, flute, clarinet (1, 4-6, 9, 10), baritone sax, bass clarinet, soprano sax (2, 3, 7, 8, 11); 
Bjorn Berger: baritone sax, bass clarinet, soprano sax (1, 4-6, 9, 10); 
Lutz Buchner: clarinet, bass clarinet (7); 
Gabriel Coburger: tenor sax, flute, clarinet (2, 3, 7, 8, 11); 
Dan Gottshall: trombone; 
Klaus Heidenreich: trombone; 
Stefan Lotterman: trombone; 
Ingo Lahme: bass trombone; 
Stephan Dietz: guitar (1, 2, 4-6, 10, 11); 
Ingmar Heller: bass; 
Steve Gadd: drums; 
Marcio Doctor: percussion (1-8, 11).

Even longtime fans of Joe Sample don't normally associate the music he wrote and played with Caribbean and Latin rhythms. That said, Children of the Sun, commissioned by and recorded with the NDR Bigband, is drenched in them. The album's inspiration dates back to 1995 when Sample played a date at the St. Croix Jazz Festival. He spent some time on the island afterward and did some hiking. He was struck by the contrast between its gorgeous scenery and its notorious history as part of the "Middle Passage" in the slave trade triangle between Africa and the New World: "This seemingly idyllic place had been an island of suffering and torment, floating in a blue abyss…." Shortly after leaving St. Croix, ideas for melodies and themes began to come to him. Sample wrote them down and let them gestate until he received an invitation from trombonist Nils Landgren to write for the NDRB. Landgren is featured as a soloist, and the mighty Steve Gadd was enlisted to play drums on the date. Sample's grooving' Trinidadian folk melody creates the set's theme on opener "I Wanna Go Home," but Afro-Cuban montunos grace his playing on "Buttermilk Sky" (not the Hoagy Carmichael nugget), which contrasts with the trombonist's low-end soloing. While "Islands of the Mind" commences as a nearly cinematic theme with lush brass and wind harmonics, it gives way to an intimate, soulful, bluesy fingerpopper with Sample's piano at the forefront. "Gold in the Cane," despite its brooding solo piano intro, is a breezy merengue with gorgeous interplay written into the horn and wind charts. There is a simmering samba tinge in "I Believe In," with a lovely clarinet solo by Gabriel Coburger. The title track weaves soul-gospel and blues with Caribbean motifs, while "Blue Skies" is a remarkable midtempo showcase for both Sample and Gadd; they lock on and swing mightily. Closer "Albatross Day" is a highlight that offers a striking portrait of why the NDR Bigband is one of the brightest units on the scene, with their gorgeous tones, unshakeable time, and enough languid elasticity to offer pianist, trombonist, and Coburger's tenor a setting for their lithe grooves. True to its inspiration, the striking contrast between beauty and pain is captured perfectly on Children of the Sun; it is easily the most ambitious recording in Sample's vast catalog, which is no mean feat. The bittersweet coda here is that he passed away months before it was finally picked up for North American distribution. This is a testament to his legacy as one of mainstream jazz's finest composers during the last half-century, and to his prodigious gifts as pianist and arranger. ---Thom Jurek, allmusic.com

Toward the end of his remarkable career, the late pianist Joe Sample (he died on September 12, 2014) traveled to Hamburg, Germany, to record Children of the Sun, a suite of his own music, with the splendid NDR Big Band. The eleven compositions were inspired by Sample's appearance at the 1995 St. Croix Jazz Festival, where he weighed the beauty of that island paradise against the brutality of slavery (17th Century St. Croix was a crucial part of what is referred to as slavery's "middle passage") and the helplessness and hopelessness the captives must have felt. Sample thought something should be written to exemplify and underscore those extremes.

Seductive rhythms of the Caribbean predominate (especially early on) and are superbly managed by drummer par excellence Steve Gadd and the ensemble. This represents a slight departure for Sample, who wasn't widely known as a composer of Latin themes, but the genre suits him well. The NDR Big Band, for its part, proves again that music is a universal language, warmly embracing Sample's free-flowing West Indian-cum-jazz essays and bringing them emphatically to life. The enterprise is saliently enriched by Sample's lithe and swinging piano (he solos perceptively on five numbers) and the clear-eyed trombone of a second guest artist, Nils Landgren, who brightens the invigorating opener, "I Wanna Go Home," reappears midway through the album, on "Gold in the Cane," and solos on every number thereafter save one, "Creole Eyes." He is especially engaging on the slower-paced "Children of the Sun" and "Blue Abyss."

Trombonists Dan Gottshall, Klaus Heidenreich and Stefan Lotterman add brief solos on "Blue Abyss," as do bass trombonist Ingo Lahme and tenor saxophonist Sebastian Gille. Heidenreich is out front again, this time with tenor Frank Delle and trumpeter Ingolf Burkhardt, on the undulating "Creole Eyes." Alto Peter Bolte shares blowing space with Sample on "Buttermilk Sky" (not to be confused with the Hoagy Carmichael standard of that name), while flugel Claus Stotter does the same on "Islands of the Mind" and "Rumfire" (on which tenor Gille also solos). "I Believe In" is an even-tempered samba with self-assured solos by Landgren, Delle (soprano), Burkhardt, flugel Fiete Felsch and clarinetist Lutz Buchner.

Whether Sample reached his goal is beside the point (thematic music is invariably subjective). What matters most is that he has produced a commendable album of Caribbean-style jazz, proficiently performed by the NDR Big Band Orchestra, thus further amplifying Sample's already impressive legacy. ---Jack Bowers, allaboutjazz.com

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01 Breathe
02 Time
03 The great gig in the sky
04 Money
05 Us and them
06 Any colour you like
07 Brain damage

Maria Pia De Vito - vocals
Nguyen Le - guitar

NDR Big Band:

Thorsten Benkenstein - trumpet
Nicolas Boysen - trumpet
Claus Stötter  - trumpet
Reiner Winterschladen  - trumpet

Klaus Heidenreich - trombone
Jon Welch - trombone
Stefan Lottermann - trombone
Ingo Lahme - trombone  (bass)

Fiete Felsch - sax contralto
Peter Bolte - sax contralto
Christoph Lauer - sax tenor
Lutz Büchner - sax tenor
Frank Delle-  sax baritone

Vladyslav Sendecki  - piano, keyboards
Jürgen Attig - bass
Gary Husband - drums
Marcio Doctor – percussion

Vietnamese French jazz artist Nguyen Le says that one of his most important plans this year is to complete a new version of the album “Dark side of the moon” of the Pink Floyd. This music project is made coincided with the 40th anniversary of the release of this album in the U.S. on March 17, 1973.

Over the past four decades, “Dark side of the moon” has been still regarded as the most perfect work of the legendary band from London (UK) and one of the best rock albums of all time. It is one of the best-selling albums in the history of popular music in the world with over 50 million copies sold worldwide, behind only Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The album is also a Billboard record with 800 consecutive weeks ranking in this chart. Until today, “Dark side of the moon” is still a typical work of the progressive rock genre.

Back to the project of artist Nguyen Le… he says that the project will commence in May and it will be released later this year. “The idea of this project was initiated by me and Siggi Loch, director of ACT Records in Germany (which exclusively distribute Nguyen Le’s products from 1994). This is a challenging and an attractive work,” said Nguyen Le.

This time, the work of Pink Floyd will be composed for bigband orchestra. Nguyen Le will play with the NDR Bigband of Hamburg City of Germany, with the collaboration of renowned artists in jazz and contemporary experimental music, such as composer and conductor Michaels Gibbs, drummer Gary Husband and Italian singer Maria Pia de Vito.

Nguyen Le says that this product will be a new discovery full of inspiration for both artists and the audience about a 40-year-old work:” Dark side of the moon.” Born to Vietnamese parents in France in 1959, Nguyen Le is a versatile artist who can play various instruments and different kinds of music such as rock and funk. Le however is best known as an outstanding jazz player who “marries” classical American music with traditional music of other cultures such as Vietnam.

Le’s second album “Dé” with his band Ultramarine was chosen as the best world music CD of 1989 by the French Liberation newspaper. His “Tales from Vietnam” album released in 1996, dubbed a “masterpiece” by the American JazzTimes magazine, won numerous international awards the same year. ---T. Van, vietnambreakingnews.com

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01. Love The One You’re With
02. Nasty
03. Fragile
04. Intro & Riffs #2
05. Rhumba Alias
06. Ghost In This House
07. The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress
08. Impressions

NDR Bigband Directed by Vince Mendoza
At Jazz Baltica Salzau on july 1, 2006
Special Gues:
Fiete Felsch- Soprano Sax
Nils Landgren- Trombone
Pat Metheny- Guitar #(7, 8)
Peter Erskine- Drums

NDR Bigband – The Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestra is the premiere orchestra of German public radio in Hamburg. The prized group is considered to be one of the best European jazz big bands and has won great International acclaim because of its original and forward-looking music, including well-documented recordings and performance collaborations with a virtual “Who-Who” of jazz and other music legends.

Among those who have performed with the Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestra are Dexter Gordon, Chet Barker, George Coleman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Tomasz Stanko, Art Farmer, Don Cherry, McCoy Turner, Lionel Hampton, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Carla Bley, and Wayne Shorter. The very first jazz concert of the Orchestra took place in May 1974 in the Hamburg "Fabrik". Since that very moment, they have become steadily and increasingly well-known, appearing on stages in Copenhagen, Nuremberg, Chicago, New York, Paris, London, and even as far away as Beijing.

Hamburg’s NDR Bigband has also taken part in many exceptional artistic projects which often come out of the jazz music frames such as The Theatre of Kurt Weil, Aus der Kürze des Lebenswith the poems by Ernst Jandel - for this purpose written by Dieter Glawischnig, or the music of both Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa.

For many years, the Ensemble has successfully reached for the compositions of Polish jazzmen. One of such projects was the recording session for a radio broadcast of NDR together with Tomasz Stanko, entitled The Music of Krzysztof Komeda. Another example of such projects is the CD being recorded with Jan Wroblewski (nickname "Ptaszyn") under the title Jazz from Poland.

Al Jarreau gave his opinion about the Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestra with these words: "There aren't too many big bands on this planet, but Hamburg has one of the best. I love it!” --- inarhymerecords.com

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1. Mr. Hornblow
2. Produkt uboczny
3. His Turbulance Mr. Alex
4. Astigmatic
5. Gama
6. Mól koński

Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski - Tenor Saxophone
NDR Bigband
Soloists:
Peter Bolte - Alto Saxophone (1)
Fiete Felsch - Alto Saxophone (6)
Gabriel Coburger - Tenor Saxophone (2)
Władysław Sendecki – Piano (3,5)
Ingolf Burkhardt – Trumpet (1,4)
Claus Stötter – Trumpet (3)
Reiner Winterschladen - Trumpet (5)
Nils Landgren – Trombone (4)
Dan Gottshall – Trombone (6)
Gary Husband – Drums (4)
Dieter Glawischnig – Conductor

NDR Bigband – The Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestra is the premiere orchestra of German public radio in Hamburg. The prized group is considered to be one of the best European jazz big bands and has won great International acclaim because of its original and forward-looking music, including well-documented recordings and performance collaborations with a virtual “Who-Who” of jazz and other music legends.

Among those who have performed with the Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestra are Dexter Gordon, Chet Barker, George Coleman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Tomasz Stanko, Art Farmer, Don Cherry, McCoy Turner, Lionel Hampton, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Carla Bley, and Wayne Shorter. The very first jazz concert of the Orchestra took place in May 1974 in the Hamburg “Fabrik”. Since that very moment, they have becomesteadily and increasinglywell-known, appearing on stages in Copenhagen, Nuremberg, Chicago, New York, Paris, London, and even as far away as Beijing.

Hamburg’s NDR Bigband has also taken part in many exceptional artistic projects which often come out of the jazz music frames such as The Theatre of Kurt Weil, Aus der Kürze des Lebens with the poems by Ernst Jandel – for this purpose written by Dieter Glawischnig, or the music of both Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa.

For many years, the Ensemble has successfully reached for the compositions of Polish jazzmen. One of such projects was the recording session for a radio broadcast of NDR together with Tomasz Stanko, entitled The Music of Krzysztof Komeda. Another example of such projects is the CD being recorded with Jan Wroblewski (nickname “Ptaszyn”) under the titleJazz from Poland.

Al Jarreau gave his opinion about the Hamburg Radio Jazz Orchestrawith these words: “There aren’t too many big bands on this planet, but Hamburg has one of the best. I love it!” ---inarhyme.com

NDR Big Band to orkiestra niemieckiego radia publicznego w Hamburgu. Jej pierwszy koncert jazzowy odbył się w maju 1974 r. w hamburskiej "Fabrik". Zespół koncertuje na całym świecie, bierze także udział w specjalnych projektach artystycznych, które niekiedy nie mieszczą się w ramach muzyki jazzowej. NDR Big Band sięga również po muzykę polskich jazzmanów.

W 2006 r. wraz z Janem "Ptaszynem" Wróblewskim niemieccy muzycy nagrali płytę zatytułowaną "Jazz From Poland". ---rockowisko.pl

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01. Piece Of Five 914
02. Beaucoup 528
03. Kuruk Setra 943
04. Balahto 636
05. Broken Rhythms 415
06. Jhulelal 1020
07. 21 Spices 926

Trilok Gurtu- Percussion & Vocal
Roland Cabezas- Guitar
Michel Alibo- Bass
Simon Phillips- Drums
and
NDR Bigband conducted by Jorg Achim Keller:
Vladyslav Sendecki- Keyboards
Thorsten Benkenstein- Trumpet
Ingolf Burkhardt- Trumpet
Stephan Meinberg- Trumpet
Phillip Kacza- Trumpet
Dan Gottshall- Trombone
Klaus Heidenreich- Trombone
Stefan Lottermann- Trombone
Ingo Lahme- Bass Trombone
Fiete Felsch- Alto sax
Peter Bolte- Alto sax
Matthias Erlewein- Tenor sax
Bjorn Berger- Tenor sax
Lutz Buchner- Tenor sax
Frank Delle- Baritone Sax, Bass Clarinet
Marcio Doctor- Percussion

Some of the stodgier individuals in the jazz world labor under the delusion that a big-band project is not legitimate unless it sounds like something Buddy Rich would have done in the '50s and is full of overdone warhorse standards that have been recorded by literally hundreds, if not thousands, of different artists over the years. But thankfully, not everyone in jazz sees things that way. 21 Spices, in fact, takes big-band music into both the jazz-rock fusion realm and the world jazz realm. This 2011 release is a collaboration between Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu (who composed all of the material), drummer Simon Phillips, and Germany's NDR Big Band; also on board are Michel Alibo on electric bass and Roland Cabezas on electric guitar. And with this lineup in place, the result is a fusion album that has a strong world music influence and sounds a bit Weather Report-ish in spots, only with the muscular horn section that the NDR Big Band brings to the table. Naturally, Gurtu's mastery of Indian percussion and the wordless, Indian-style scat vocals that the Mumbai native provides gives 21 Spices (which contains both live and studio performances) some Indian appeal at times, but Indian music is hardly the only world music influence that asserts itself on this 55-minute CD. Actually, Latin music is a more prominent influence, especially on "Broken Rhythms" and "1-2 Beaucoup." Meanwhile, "Balato" and "Jhulelal" both incorporate elements of African music. So in terms of world music influences, 21 Spices is pleasingly far-reaching. And it is also an exciting demonstration of the fact that regardless of what bop snobs have to say, big-band recordings don't have to recycle old Buddy Rich charts in order to have validity. --- Alex Henderson, Rovi

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