The Omni-American Book Club

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The Omni-American Book Club
Brian Lynch's studio album

Publication
(s)

2019

Label (s) Hollistic MusicWorks

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Modern Creative , Postbop

Title (number)

11

occupation
  • Trumpet , composition, arrangement: Brian Lynch
  • Trumpet: Michael Dudley, Jean Caze, Alec Aldred
  • Alto, soprano saxophone, flute; Tom Kelley
  • Alto saxophone, flute, clarinet: David Leon
  • Tenor, soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet: Gary Keller
  • Pekussion: Murph Aucamp, Little Johnny Rivero (1: 5, 2: 2)
  • Guest musicians:
chronology
Madera Latino: A Latin Jazz Perspective on the Music of Woody Shaw
(2016) 		The Omni-American Book Club
(2019)

The Omni-American Book Club (My Journey Through Literature in Music) is a jazz album by the Brian Lynch Big Band . The double album was released in 2019 on the Hollistic MusicWorks label.

background

Brian Lynch's first big-band album, The Omni-American Book Club , subtitled "My Journey Through Literature In Music," is dedicated to a number of writers, particularly those on justice and civil rights, who Lynch intellectually and musically have formed. To this end, he has expanded his band to include a number of well-known guest musicians in addition to his regular ensemble, including the saxophonists Donald Harrison , David Liebman and Jim Snidero as well as the drummers Dafnis Prieto , the flautist Orlando Valle and the violinist Regina Carter . His ensemble consists of a cast that includes Lynch's fellow professors at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music , students and alumni of Frost University.

Track list

  • Brian Lynch Big Band: The Omni-American Book Club: My Journey Through Literature in Music (Hollistic MusicWorks, HMW 20/21)
CD1
  1. Crucible for Crisis
  2. The Struggle Is in Your Name
  3. Affective affinities
  4. The Trouble with Elysium
  5. Inevitability and Eternity
  6. Tribute to Blue (Mitchell)
CD2
  1. Opening Up
  2. Africa My Land
  3. Woody Shaw
  4. The Struggle Is in Your Name (extended version)
  5. Woody Shaw (extended version)

reception

The album received a Grammy in 2020 in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category . For his composition "Crucible for Crisis" Lynch was also nominated in the Grammy category Best Instrumental Composition .

Jack Bowers ( All About Jazz ) rated the album with 4½ (out of five) stars and said that as important as the presence of the numerous (guest) musicians was, Lynch's outstanding compositions and arrangements were crucial. The work is sublime in every respect; his songs are good and elegant, tasteful and swinging.

According to Ed Enright, who reviewed the album on the Down Beat , Brian Lynch's first big band album combined the trumpeter's lifelong passion for reading with his far-reaching vision as a composer and arranger. Even if the Omni-American Book Club reveals Lynch's deep interest in African-American literature and social justice, the authors WEB DuBois , Albert Murray , Ned Sublette , Naomi Klein , Mascha Gessen , Isabel Wilkerson , Ralph Ellison , Chinua Achebe , Amiri Baraka and AB Spellman in order to enjoy this Afro-Caribbean collection with its strikingly fresh, lavishly arranged original compositions to the fullest. The music captivates with "relentless grooves, sparkling interplay of the ensembles and bursting solos, which inspire the listener to an exciting thrill inspired by fearless intellectuals whose written works had a life-changing effect on this socially conscious bandleader."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ed Enright: Brian Lynch Big Band: The Omni-American Book Club: My Journey Through Literature In Music. Down Beat, December 1, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ Brian Lynch Big Band: The Omni-American Book Club / My Journey Through Literature in Music. All About Jazz, November 20, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .