''Concerto Piccolo'' is a live album by European jazz group the

Vienna Art Orchestra The Vienna Art Orchestra was a European jazz group based in Vienna, Austria. Organized at different times as either a big band or as a smaller combo, it was regarded as one of the leading European jazz ensembles and was an official cultural amba ...

recorded at the Zürich Jazz Festival in 1980 and released on the Hat ART label.Vienna Art Orchestra: Concerto Piccolo
accessed February 19, 2018
accessed February 19, 2018

Reception

The

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review stated: "Recorded live at the Zurich Jazz Festival in 1980, this was America's first taste of the wild abandon that is the Vienna Art Orchestra and expatriate Lauren Newton's glorious vocal instrument. This is a 13-piece big band led by the beautifully weird compositional, instructional, and arranging craziness of Mathias Rüegg. They trash and revere all traditions -- both historical and avant-garde at the same time -- while using them both along with carnival and circus music, classical forms and fugues, and French salon music. ... There are colors, harmonies, and polyphonal systems at work here that will be recalled as the glory years of Euro big-band jazz in the future, and the evocative timbral nature of Rüegg's compositions will be studied for decades to come. Truly, ''Concerto Piccolo'' is an amazing debut from a band that offers more than it could possibly receive".

Track listing

''All compositions by Mathias Rüegg except where noted'' # "Concerto Piccolo" – 15:25 # "Herzogstrasse 4" – 11:30 # "Jelly Roll, But Mingus Rolls Better" (

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/Mathias Rüegg) – 12:45 # "Variations on "Am Hermineli Z'liab" – 12:25 # "Tango from Obango" – 12:20

Personnel

Mathias Rüegg Mathias Rüegg (born 8 December 1952) is a European musician, composer, and bandleader best known as founder and director of the Vienna Art Orchestra from 1977 to 2010. Biography Born in Zurich, Switzerland, son of linguist Robert Rüegg,Mathi ...

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arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestrat ...

conductor Conductor or conduction may refer to: Biology and medicine * Bone conduction, the conduction of sound to the inner ear * Conduction aphasia, a language disorder Mathematics * Conductor (ring theory) * Conductor of an abelian variety * Cond ...

Lauren Newton Lauren Amber Newton (born 16 November 1952) is an avant-garde jazz and Contemporary classical music, contemporary classical singer and founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra. Biography Newton earned a degree in music at the University of O ...

voice The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound produ ...

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

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flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

baritone horn The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is 3 or 4 valved tenor-voiced brass instrument in the saxhorn family.Robert Donington, "The Instruments of Music", (pp. 113ff ''The Family of Bugles'') 2nd ed., Methuen, London, 1962 It is a pist ...

, alphorn, double trumpet *Christian Radovan − trombone *Billy Fuchs − tuba *Harry Sokal (musician), Harry Sokal − soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute *Wolfgang Puschnig − alto saxophone, flute, piccolo *Roman Schwaller − tenor saxophone, clarinet *Uli Scherer − piano, Rhodes piano, Fender piano *Stefan Bauer - vibraphone *Jürgen Wuchner − double bass, bass *Wolfgang Reisinger - percussion *Joris Dudli - drum kit, drums

References

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