The Music of Oliver Nelson: Stolen Moments - Metropole Orkest Big Band - 2015
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- Stolen Moments - Metropole Orkest Big Band dir. by Jörg Achim Keller who also wrote the arrangement. Live concert The Music of Oliver Nelson: The Blues and Abstract Truth recorded at Maitland Theatre (Driebergen, NL);
Soloists: Hans Vroomans-p, Paul van der Feen-as, Rik Mol-trp; composer Oliver Nelson
Personnel of the Metropole Orkest Big Band on this gig:
trp: Ray Bruinsma, Martijn de Laat, Jelle Schouten en Rik Mol
trb: Bart van Lier (also on b-trp), Jan Oosting, Jan Bastiani, Martin van den Berg (b-trb)
reeds: Marc Scholten, Paul van der Feen, Leo Janssen, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen, Max Boeree
flute: Mariël van den Bos
rhythm: Hans Vroomans-p, Peter Tiehuis-gtr, Aram Kersbergen-b, Martijn Vink-drs
Oliver Nelson (1932 - 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and the Abstract Truth is regarded as one of the most significant recordings of its era. The centerpiece of the album is the definitive version of Nelson's composition, "Stolen Moments". Other important recordings from the early 1960s are More Blues and the Abstract Truth and Sound Pieces, both also on the Impulse!.label. He studied music composition and theory at Washington and Lincoln Universities in St. Louis, Mo, graduating with a master's degree in 1958. After completing his degree Nelson moved to New York City, playing with Erskine Hawkins and Wild Bill Davis, and working as the house arranger for the Apollo Theater in Harlem. In 1959 he began recording for Prestige Records as the leader of various small groups which included people like multi-reedist and flutist Eric Dolphy and drummer Roy Haynes. Nelson's big breakthrough came with The Blues and the Abstract Truth, an album recorded for Impulse! also featuring Eric Dolphy, Roy Haynes, Bill Evans and Freddie Hubbard, which made his name as a composer and arranger. Subsequently, he recorded a number of notable big-band albums including Afro-American Sketches and Full Nelson.
He worked as an arranger on large ensemble albums for Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Hodges, Wes Montgomery, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Smith, Billy Taylor, Stanley Turrentine, Irene Reid, and Gene Ammons. The music Sonny Rollins wrote for Alfie (1966), a film made in Great Britain, was arranged by him for Rollins's Impulse! album of the same name. In 1967, he moved to Los Angeles and began composing background music for television and films. Television projects included Ironside, Columbo, The Six Million Dollar Man and Longstreet. Films scored by Oliver include Death of a Gunfighter (1969), Dial Hot Line (1970) and The Alpha Caper (1973). He also arranged Gato Barbieri's music for Last Tango in Paris (1972). He also arranged and produced albums for pop stars such as Nancy Wilson, James Brown, the Temptations, and Diana Ross.
It is less well-known that Oliver Nelson composed several symphonic works, and was also deeply involved in jazz education. Nelson's book of jazz practice exercises, Patterns for Improvisation, was published in 1966 and remains highly regarded to this day. Oliver Nelson died of a heart attack on October 28, 1975 at the age of 43.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Oliver Nelson among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire.
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Credits & Acknowledgements
Music selection: Fred Dekker, Robert Soomer
Design, Production & Final Editing: Jolien Plat
Audio supervision: Dirk Overeem; Video supervison & registration: Max Boeree (Big Ears Productions)
Text and Narrative: Fred Dekker
Concept: Fred Dekker
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Great composition
Marvelous performance
The composer would have been proud 😊😊😮😢
Fantastic big band!!!!
These fantastic musicians have all paid their dues!!!!
Yesss bravo !!!!
Most excellent
If you practice in middle school!!! Keep on doing your long tones!!!!
Best Big Band Version I ever heard!!!! Outstanding!
I wish so much that NHOP was still living, to play with your band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You mean Niels Pederson?
Acoustic upright string bass player ..ja?
Aram Kersbergen playing here.
Can't say they have no bass trombone. Wow! Started being a fan of this group when Pat Metheny played with them at North Sea
Great arrangement, great playing but... Oliver Nelsons version with all the other G.O.A.T.s. still can´t be beat. That feeling...
How ' bout the rest of the concert?
check Part 7 of the you tube series Metropole Orkest: 75 Years in Perspective. You'll find 6 other Oliver Nelson compositions arranged by Jörg Achim Keller for the Metropole Bigband from the same concert. Just go to the end of the Introduction of Part 7 and click on the playlist. You'll find it under playlist items nr 138 -142 (Hoe Down, Cascades, Yearnin', Black Brown and Beautiful, and Miss Fine).