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Joe Zawinul: Stories of the Danube + Terence Blanchard Quintet

with the BBC Concert Orchestra

Terence Blanchard standing on train tracks - watch out, Terence!

A double-bill including the UK premiere of Joe Zawinul’s grand orchestral vision of one of the world’s great rivers, conducted by his friend Kristjan Järvi and featuring Django Bates as soloist.

In Stories of the Danube the rich textures of the orchestral palette meet the fire and momentum of contemporary Jazz, as the music follows the course of the river through continental Europe and into the Black Sea. Järvi was a close collaborator with Zawinul in the years before his untimely passing – months before he was due to play here for the 2007 Festival – and tonight pays tribute to this seminal figure in Jazz as composer, keyboard virtuoso and co-founder of Weather Report.

As well as the symphony the trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard and his Quintet will join the BBC CO in the UK premiere of a new extended piece, Herbie Hancock: By Himself, which was inspired by Hancock’s impressionistic piano solos. Complemented with music drawn from the composer’s score for the recent Robert de Niro film The Comedians, it’s a piece which harks back to that classic Blue Note sound of the 1960s and is a perfect accompaniment to the sweeping evocation of the Danube.
 

Produced by the Barbican in association with the EFG London Jazz Festival

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