Brian Orchestra Setzer - Wolfgang's Big Night Out
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Artist: Brian Orchestra SetzerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: Surfdog Records Wea
Soundtracks:
- Take the 5th
- One More Night With You
- Wolfgang's Big Night Out
- Honey Man
- Yes We Can Can
- Swingin' Willie
- Sabre Dance
- For Lisa
- Here Comes the Broad
- 1812 Overdrive
- Some River In Europe
- Take a Break Guys
Free Music Notes for Wolfgang's Big Night Out
Free Music Review: A wonderful sound worth checking out
Hit: 5 Stars
As a long time Setzer/ Stray Cats fan, I was skeptical about wether or not a classical album by a band known for recreating songs by Louis Prima, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and the like. There's no question that Setzer likes to take the unorthodox route when releasing his music as it almost NEVER fits into the mainstream. But that's OK. That's what put his bands on the map over the years and this round is no different.
First, ;et me tell you how well that this album is mixed and mastered. In this day and age of everybody wanting to make a quick buck- throwing together any form of rubbish to make a hit that will be forgotten in 6 months, we lose sight of how an album is constructed and the "rare care" that goes into making a great album. That task does not fall solely in the hands of the artists, but the producers and studio engineers. This is not a bad note on this album. The engineers and producers made this album sound as brilliant as anything that I have heard in quite some time. I might even go out on a limb to say that this is the most well- produced album of Setzer's career.
Now for the material- a group of popular classical numbers redone and renamed to fit the swingin' side of the Orchestra. "Take the 5th" is a pleasant surprise and should be compared side by side with the remake of Beethoven's 5th released by the Trans- Siberian Orchestra. Both sounding surprisingly fresh and different but not enough to bore whcih is what I was afraid of. "Honey Man" is a great take on "Flight of the Bumblebee". On this instrumental- heavy album, you have to check out the updated versions of "Sabre Dance" and "1812 Overture", renamed the "1812 Overdrive". This album makes it OK for you to blast out Tchaikovsky out of your 1949 Ford.
For those of you who have enjoyed the last 2 Christmas albums by the Orchestra, you will like this as it can easily be played on shuffle with any of your holiday favorites, albeit this is NOT a holiday album.
All and all this is a great album. The photo on the back of the album depicting the late greats of the classical eras sitting at a bar with the Newcastle tap showing plainly is worth a good laugh and this album is worth a pick-up. If you are expecting a commercial success like "The Dirty Boogie", then don't bother. If you want to hear skilled musicians and instrumentalists giving a different take on a genre that only Setzer would think to do this to, and at the same time be listenable, then look no further.
Chad Koenig
Wolfgang's Big Night Out Poster
Take the biggest hit songs on the planet, add some rockin? swing, scorching electric guitar, put it into a blender with an 18-piece Big Band and you have something pretty mind-blowing. Classical music is the fertile ground of the greatest melodies ever written, and you will know every single one on this CD (even if you don?t recognize the titles). As great as these classical melodies are, however, when presented in their original context among long and drawn out movements, they?re often very hard for most people to digest. As a result, the majority of music fans don?t own any of it. With Wolfgang?s Big Night Out Setzer has embarked on the most ambitious undertaking of his career in re-arranging and orchestrating these classical pieces into streamlined hit melodies that are nothing short of WOW!Sure, a dozen swinging, rocking Setzer-ized tunes inspired by the most popular themes in classical music seems a little silly--but it also sounds great. As the ex-Stray Cats guitarist blazes his way across the fretboards, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 becomes "Take the 5th," and Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" morphs into "One More Night with You," complete with lyrics that lust both for the joy of rock and the chorus of colleens who sing along with Setzer. The horns play foil to Setzer's ebullient six-string antics, which zing with humor and virtuosity, archly taking on Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," transformed into the finger-popping title track, or rippling through the finger-busting cartoon-speed solos of "Honey Man," a rockabilly rave-up based on Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee." Guitar buffs will also appreciate the variety of tones Setzer employs. He's trad-jazz clean in "1812 Overdrive," rabidly surfy for Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance," and sweetly pure on nylon-string guitar in "For Lisa," his gypsy swing twist on Beethoven's "Für Elise." This may be a lowbrow take on highbrow music, but Setzer keeps his standard lofty, and the results are a blast. --Ted Drozdowski
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