Don't Look Back (Warren Vaché album)

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Don't look back
Studio album by Warren Vaché & the Scottish Jazz Ensemble

Publication
(s)

2006

Label (s) Arbors Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

11

running time

58:38

occupation
  • Piano  : John Rae (3,4,8,11)
  • Scottish Ensemble (1,2,5-7,9): Jonathan Morton (conductor, violin), Cheryle Crockett, Liza Webb, Lowri Porter, Tamas Andras, Laura Ghiro, Amira Bedrush-McDonald (violins), Fionna Winning, Becky Jones (Viola), Alison Lawrence, Naomi Boole-Masterson (cello), Diane Clark (double bass, Helen Macleod (harp), Katherine Mackintosh (oboe)

Studio (s)

BBC Studios, Glasgow

chronology
Dream Dancing
(2004) 		Don't look back Warren Vaché, John Allred : Jubilation
(2008)

Don't Look Back is a jazz album by Warren Vaché & the Scottish Jazz Ensemble, recorded at the BBC recording studio in Glasgow from July 6-9, 2005 and released on June 13, 2006 on Arbors Records .

background

The trumpeter was initially asked to release an album with string accompaniment, which Ruby Braff had been working on shortly before his death in February 2003. However, a performance in Glasgow inspired Vaché to write his own CD. He befriended some members of the Scottish ensemble and the founders of Arbors Records, Rachel and Mat Domber, which led to not only funding a whole new project but also flying an American team of musicians and recording engineers to Glasgow, to participate in this project. With Don't Look Back , the cornetist and trumpeter Warren Vaché fulfilled his dream of recording with a string ensemble, a twelve-piece formation.

Vaché convinced Bill Finegan to return from a long retirement to contribute arrangements for three tracks, two of which ("It Was Written in the Stars" and "April in My Heart") were suggested by Finegan himself. In addition to Finegan, there were other arrangements by James Chirillo (who also wrote “Valse Prismatique”), Alan Barnes and Warren Vaché himself. There was also a long-lost piece by Johnny Carisi , who had originally written and arranged it for Charlie Parker . Carisi's “Spring” was discovered by guitarist James Chirillo, who brought his talent as a musician, composer and arranger to this project.

Against the background of the strings, the trumpet and cornet play in a warm and pleasant mood that goes hand in hand with a classic jazz atmosphere. Vaché plays with the Scottish ensemble on six of the ten pieces on this album, and his trumpet is the only other instrument accompanying the group. Instead of limiting the music in this way, he uses a rhythm section for four more tracks , consisting of bassist Ronnie Rae , pianist John Rae and drummer Brian Kellock . The selection includes a. Jazz standards like Harold Arlen's “It Was Written in the Stars”, Hoagy Carmichael's “April in My Heart”, Sammy Cahn's “ I Fall in Love Too Easily ” and David Raskin's “My Love and I”, as well as Erich Wolfgang Korngold's song “My Mistress 'Eyes ”(Eng.“ No shine in the sun ”), from Five Songs, Op. 38 (1948).

Track list

James Chirillo
  • Warren Vaché & the Scottish Jazz Ensemble, Don't Look Back (Arbors Jazz ARCD: 19318)
  1. It Was Written in the Stars (Harold Arlen, Leo Robin ) 6:49
  2. My Mistress' Eyes ( Erich Wolfgang Korngold ) 2:57
  3. Spring (Johnny Carisi) 4:18
  4. My Love and I (David Raksin) 5:15
  5. Molly on the Shore (Warren Vaché) 4:10
  6. April in My Heart (Hoagy Carmichael) 6:18
  7. Valse Prismatique (James Chirillo) 4:15
  8. I Fall in Love Too Easily (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne ) 4:36
  9. Love Is for the Very Yong (David Raksin) 5:28
  10. On the Street Where You Live ( Alan Jay Lerner , Frederick Loewe ) 6:08
  11. Don't Look Back ( Kaye Dunham , Johnny Mandel ) 8:24

reception

Edward Blanco wrote in All About Jazz , “Typical of classical jazz music, Don't Look Back quenches the thirst for that smooth and gentle side of jazz that we all need a sip of sooner or later. Vaché interprets the selection of this relaxing, soul-seeking and calming jazz session with the graceful accompaniment of his instrumental staff. "

Michael Anthony wrote in JazzTimes that the result was something remarkable, not least the discovery of an arrangement for the legendary Charlie Parker with Strings sessions in 1949/50. In Carisi's “Spring”, Vaché takes the place of Charlie Parker and “gives a more subtle and haunting effect as a cornetist. In fact, it's the haunted beauty that Vaché plays throughout the album that makes it a compelling experience. All 11 titles become vignettes as if you were watching a classic film ”. And Bill Finegan, "the seasoned arranger of the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra still has his imaginative touch as he approaches 90."

Rick Anderson awarded the album four (out of five) stars in Allmusic and praised it: “The great experience of everyone involved is brilliantly presented on this album, which is basically an hour-long study of elaborate and wonderfully orchestrated melancholy. The string arrangements are not surprisingly detailed, but never intrusive. There are no up-tempo numbers. From the poignantly beautiful “It was Written in the Stars” that opens the program to the bittersweet title track that ends, this album moves slowly and gracefully through various shades of lyrical blue. This may not be the best album to listen to if you are already depressed. However, if you are in the mood for something soft and sad, for mood music that catches your attention, it would be difficult to find anything better than that. Highly recommended. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Anthony: Warren Vaché & the Scottish Jazz Ensemble, Don't Look Back. JazzTimes, January 1, 2007, accessed March 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b c Edward Blanco: Warren Vaché & the Scottish Jazz Ensemble, Don't Look Back. All About Jazz, November 4, 2006, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Review of Rick Anderson's Don't Look Back album at Allmusic . Accessed March 31, 2019.