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Rush Hour is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano, featuring an orchestra arranged and conducted by Gunther Schuller, recorded in 1994 and released on the Blue Note label.
On Rush Hour, I finally had the opportunity to collaborate with Gunther Schuller and it was an extraordinary experience. Gunther wrote most of the arrangements, and a couple of originals, and I composed several things after he recorded the music he created.
Feb 7, 2007 · Rush Hour is an unusual album, for nine of the 13 tracks were arranged and conducted by Pulitzer Prize-winning classical composer Gunther Schuller. For four ballads, including Ellington's "Prelude to a Kiss," Schuller backs Lovano with a jazz combo and a string orchestra which thickens the atmosphere without sweetening it.
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Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925 – June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.
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- Gunther Schuller papers, 1943-2015
Mar 15, 2009 · Gunther Schuller · Joe Lovano - Rush Hour (1994) Let's now move into more musically challenging territory: Gunther Schuller (b.1925) is a towering figure in American music. He participated under his capacity as a horn player in Miles Davis' "Birth of the Cool" seminal 1949 sessions.
Apr 6, 1994 · Rush Hour, an Album by Joe Lovano. Released in February 1995 on Blue Note (catalog no. 29269; CD). Genres: Jazz. Featured peformers: Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, drums, arranger, producer), Gunther Schuller (arranger), Jack Walrath (trumpet), David Taylor (bass trombone, tuba), John Clark (French horn), Dick ...
Streams of Expression reunites Lovano with the great composer, conductor, and musicologist Gunther Schuller (their first collaboration was Rush Hour, Blue Note, 1995), and draws upon everything from the cool school to late-era Coltrane, offering a holistic take on jazz, present and future.
