Les Sacqueboutiers - Le jazz et la pavane: L'improvisation à travers les siècles (2012)

Tracklist

01. Bombarde - Instrumental Credo, from the "Manuscript d'Apt" (Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion)
02. Trattado de Glosas: Recercada primera sobre tenore "El passamezzo antiguo" (Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion)
03. Trattado de Glosas: Recercada quarta para violone sola (Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion)
04. Trattado de Glosas: Recercada settima sobre tenore "La Romanesca" (Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion)
05. Trattado de Glosas: Recercada segunda sobre tenore "El passamezzo moderno" (Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion)
06. Con qué la lavaré? - Villancico After an Anonymous Song from the "Cancionero de Uppsala, 1556", No. 29 (Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion)
07. Toccate e correnti d'intavolatura d'organo e cembalo: Toccata VII in D Minor (With Harpsichord and Piano)
08. Aria sopra la Ciaconna, a voce sola "Su la cetra amorosa" - No. 1 from "Madrigali et altre musiche concertate a 1–5, Libro secondo, Op. 10, Venice, 1633" (Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion)
09. Il primo libro di canzone, sinfonie, fantasie, capricci, brandi, correnti, gagliarde, alemane, volte: No. 15, Passacalle a 3 (Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion)
10. Il primo libro di canzone, sinfonie, fantasie, capricci, brandi, correnti, gagliarde, alemane, volte: No. 3, L'Eroica a 3, (b) Ciaccona (Version with Cornet, Sackbut, Keyboard and Percussion)
11. Es steh Gott auf, SWV 356 (No. 16 from "Symphoniae sacrae II, Op. 10 - Dresden, 1647") [Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion]
12. El fuego - Villancico, a 4 (Arr. for Winds, Keyboards and Percussion)


Fusions of jazz and Baroque music are almost commonplace, and brass ensembles both historical and modern have essayed mainstream jazz. This release from French ensemble Les Sacqueboutiers (The Sackbut Players), however, may be unique. It is not a Renaissance treatment of jazz, but a jazz treatment of Renaissance music, and it is quite ingeniously done. Les Sacqueboutiers draw on keyboard and brass (sackbut, cornet, harpsichord, percussion) ensemble pieces from Italy and Spain in the late 16th century. Some of these are polyphonic songs or works of the ricercar type (the ancestor of the fugue). The four pieces called Recercata by Diego Ortiz are all of the same type, but Les Sacqueboutiers treat every one of them differently. A jazz ensemble with drums may alternate with the source material, improvising on its basic pitch collection, or may (in whole or in part) accompany that source material, and the parts of the puzzle can be put together in several different ways. This is facilitated by the overlap between the two groups: both contain brass instruments (trumpet and trombone in the jazz group), each has a keyboard (harpsichord and organ for the early instruments, piano for the jazz group), and each has its own percussion. As the program proceeds, a second type of piece comes to the fore: ground-bass pieces such as the Passacaille and Ciaccona of Andrea Falconiero. These repeated patterns are so suggestive of jazz treatment that you can forget you're listening to a unique fusion and just become immersed in the flow of creativity that effortlessly spans four centuries of time. An original and supremely musical experiment and an essential purchase for anyone interested in fusions between jazz and classical music.

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