Nguyên Lê enlightens the Floyd’s repertoire – pure happiness – and enchants it with the collusion of the NDR Bigband and its brilliant soloists, deploying new sound-textures created by the uplifting orchestrations of Michael Gibbs. The arrangements here provide choice settings for inspired improvisations and also reveal other compositions which appear as natural extensions of the original opus.

Night Optician's (Nocni optika) is an instrumental quintet composed of musicians whose starting point is partially jazz, partially classical music. The result is a sort of periphery or suburb of the jazz mainstream, a place lit with flashes of the resonance of the pulsing fevers of the metropolis, and breezes of the sombre surfaces of the forest pools. A neurotic’s meditation blends with the phlegmatic’s mad dash in a herbarium of half-forgotten animals.

Jakub Zitko - keyboards, bandleader, Marcel Barta - alto sax, soprano sax, Pavel Hruby - tenor sax, bassclarinet, Oskar Torok - trumpet, Jan Jirucha - trombone, euphonium, Jiri Simek - guitars, Jakub Vejnar - bass, Milos Dvoracek - drums, percussion, Vladan Maliniak - violin & viola, Katarina Karasova - flute, Ivan Acher - fonovox

Urs Leimgruber: soprano and tenor sax, flute, percussion, Christy Doran: guitar, guitar synthesizer, Bobby Burri: bass, Fredy Studer: drums, gong, percussion

Trilok Gurtu: tabla, percussion, Paul McCandless: oboe, English horn, soprano sax, wind synthesizer, Glen Moore: bass, Ralph Towner: guitars, piano, synthesizer, drum machine

Emile Parisien: saxophones, Julien Touery: piano, Ivan Gelugne: bass, Sylvain Darrifourcq: drums, percussion, zither

 

 

 

 

Michal Zacek - ss, Boris Urbanek - keys, Martin Lehky - bg, Michal Hejna - dr, Pavel Planka - perc

97th Avenue, Volcano, First Snow, Come and Play, Deja vu, Friday´s Dance, Sunny, Tears of Happiness