Bill Holman - Hommage
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Artist: Bill HolmanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Music Label: Jazzed Media
Soundtracks:
- Raincheck
- Sunshinola
- Zamboni
- Bemsha Swing
- If You Could See Me Now
- Woodchopper's Ball
- Hommage à Woody, Pt. 1: A Man of Few Herds
- Hommage à Woody, Pt. 2: Milwaukee Nights
- Hommage à Woody, Pt. 3: The Chopper
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Free Music Review: A Celebration of Bill Holman's Creativity
Hit: 5 Stars
Bill Holman celebrates his 80th birthday in 2007 with the release of this superb 2006 concert recording by the super-talented Bill Holman Band. (One track was recorded at the same L.A. venue in 2005). Bill Holman has been a major force in jazz arranging and composing for fifty-five years and "Hommage" is wonderful celebration of Bill Holman's creativity and jazz spirit. Holman has long mastered the balance of keeping his writing forward-looking yet firmly grounded in the swinging big band tradition. This trait is strongly in evidence on this recording. Every chart keeps the listener fully engaged. There are hard-driving standards such as Billy Strayhorn's "Raincheck", Monk's "Bemsha Swing" (which the band really digs into), a surprising remake of "Woodchopper's Ball", and a moving ballad reading of "If You Could See Me Know" (featuring an outstanding solo by trumpeter Ron Stout). Holman stretches but never loses the listener with advanced original charts such as "Sunshinola" (based on "You Are My Sunshine") and the memorable "Zamboni" which will bring a smile to the face of anyone who is familiar with the ice-rink surfacing machine. The title chart "Hommage a Woody" is a twenty-minute three-part suite in honor of Woody Herman written nearly twenty years ago for the German WDR Big Band. Originally featuring Buddy DeFranco on clarinet, this version features the virtuoso clarinet of Bob Efford throughout. While this intriguing suite evokes something of the Herman sound in places, it is certainly no copy of the Herd's styles, but rather reflects Holman's own creativity as inspired by the Herman Herds. Holman leads the Band and Efford in a breathtaking performance.
Other outstanding soloists in the band include trumpeters Jonathan Dane (a particularly interesting new voice) and Larry Lunetta, saxophonists Pete Christlieb, Lanny Morgan and Bruce Babad, pianist Christian Jacob, and trombonist Dave Ryan. The rhythm section of Jacob, Joel Hamilton on bass and Kevin Kanner on drums swings hard and brings great vitality to Holman's challenging charts.
Very well recorded, Bill Holman's 68 minute "Hommage" is highly recommended to fans of modern big band jazz. This fine Jazzed Media release will undoubtedly be one of the top big band jazz releases of 2007.
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