Claus Waidtløw - The Seasons (2021)

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Title: The Seasons
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Jaeger Community Music
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 48:46 min
Total Size: 262 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Pt. 1. Spring; I. Longing - II. Spring
02. Pt. 2. Summer; I. Expectations - II. Happy Holiday
03. Interlude 1; September (Bass intermezzo)
04. Pt. 3. Autumn; I. October - II. Morning Mist
05. Interlude 2; December (Trio intermezzo)
06. Pt. 4. Winter; I. Winter is coming - II. The Storm

The album features Jorge Rossy on drums and Daniel Franck on bass. At the release concert, Claus Waidtløw is flanked by the orchestra's regular drummer John Riddell and bassist Frederik Sakham.

The new work for the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra is inspired by the change of seasons and consists of four movements, which, in addition to Claus Waidtløw himself, presents three soloists from the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra. About the work, Claus Waidtløw says:

“Many are inspired by nature and composers from the classical world have written great works around the seasons, but within the rhythmic world, as far as I know, not many have taken up this theme in a larger orchestral context. I'm looking forward to it".

In recent years, Waidtløw has established itself as one of the country's leading composers in rhythmic music and in 2015 received a Danish Music Award in the category “Danish Jazz Composer of the Year”. In 2016, he released in collaboration with the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra the critically acclaimed album Apples for Adam and has since written music for several European orchestras.