SAXOPHONIA. Latvijas Radio bigbends un Seamus Blake (ASV)

Musicians:
Seamus Blake, saxophone (United States)
Sabina Sciubba, vocal (Italy, France)
The Latvian Radio Big Band

Programme:
Music from the Superconductor album, arranged for the Latvian Radio Big Band

The Canadian-born saxophonist and composer Seamus Blake is one of the most important jazzmen in New York, with his heart belonging to the contemporary jazz world of the 1980s and 1990s.  He continues the ideas of the distinguished jazz saxophonists Bob Mintzer and Michael Brecker and the winner of an international jazz sax competition named after the legendary Thelonious Monk.  Blake’s compositions are elegant and often audacious, full of brilliant improvisations merged with excitement and enviable virtuosity.  25 years of experience with modern jazz have made the composition sense of Seamus Black more delicate.  He is a member of several jazz alliances, and he has released 16 albums so far.  The most recent one, Superconductor, was released late in 2015, merging electronics and electronic wind instruments.  This programme involves arrangements of Blake’s music by the Latvian Radio Big Band for the audience in Rīga.  The music will be supplemented by composer and actress Sabina Schiubba, who is a Grammy-nominated member of the New York electric music band Brazilian Girls.