Perth Festival Fine Arts Brass/Scottish Ensemble, St John's Kirk/ City Hall 5/5
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NEVER mind the music, Friday at the festival was an example of the skill of the emcee. The Fine Arts Brass Ensemble's A-Z of jazz was literally true, from May Aufderheide's Thriller Rag to Frank Zappa's Dogbreath Variations, but it was also a chronological journey entertainingly narrated by trumpeter Simon Lenton. He had a wealth of information to accompany the music (some of it new even to these jazz-tuned ears), but it was his arrangements for the quintet of work by Irving Berlin, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Neal Hefti, Richard Rogers, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny that were the real meat of the programme.
This was chamber music rather than jazz per se and improvisation was limited, but trumpeters Angela Whelan and Lenton took every opportunity to show off that there was, including a staged performance of Gershwin's They Can't Take That Away From Me. The huge ensemble sound was the real star though: Tiger Rag remarkable not just for Richard Sandland's virtuoso tuba playing but also for hearing the famous clarinet line on trumpet; My Favourite Things nodding towards Coltrane's rephrasing of the tune; colliery band colourings on the Zappa.See the full content of this document
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Perth Festival Fine Arts Brass/Scottish Ensemble, St John's Kirk/ City Hall 5/5
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