Lake Wobegon Brass Band, Michael Halstenson - Jack Stamp: Music for Brass Band (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Mill City Flourish
02. From Concrete to Cobblestones: I. Fanfare for the Rock
03. From Concrete to Cobblestones: II. The County of Dorset
04. From Concrete to Cobblestones: III. Mind the Gap
05. From Concrete to Cobblestones: IV. Hymn to Dunblane
06. From Concrete to Cobblestones: V. The City
07. San Luis Snaphots
08. Scarborough Fair
09. From a Distant Hill
10. Bare-Ass Funk
11. Cuban Stingers
12. Psalm 150
13. Fast Falls the Eventide
14. For the Beauty
15. Infamy
16. Memories on Crimond
17. Grace and Glory
18. Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
19. Bring a Torch

Born in Maryland in 1954, John Stamp – universally known as ‘Jack’ – is a well-known figure, both as conductor and composer, in the symphonic wind-band movement that flourishes in US universities. But the sound of the brass band familiar in the UK has long been an enthusiasm, and his involvement with brass bands on both sides of the Atlantic – particularly the Minneapolis-based Lake Wobegon Brass Band, which takes its name from Garrison Keillor’s fictional Minnesota town – has generated a number of works which bring elements of the British brass tradition to audiences in the US Mid-West, imbuing them with a catchy rhythmic swing.

Steve Ecklund, horn
Bill Chouinard, organ
Lake Wobegon Brass Band
Michael Halstenson, conductor

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