Freestyle Chamber Orchestra

Freestyle Chamber Orchestra
  • country:Hungary
  • style(s):Ethnic, Jazz
  • label:EuRoots - HeuRekord
  • artist posted by:EuRoots

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Janos Nagy, composer and Mate Palhegyi, flautist. The formation as its name indicates aims at transgressing traditional genre borders. The wholly traditional string orchestra together with a normal jazz-quartet is extended by „classical” woodwinds which if necessary can play instruments used in jazz as well.
We created our orchestra in order to complement the lack of a musical genre that is now furnished by us: a stylistically totally unbound interpretation which at the same time preserves the purest artistic values.
The evergreen jazz standards as well as contemporary pieces resound in a basically string orchestra way enlarged by the jazz quartet and the four woodwinds and hurdy-gurdy.In this way the usual sound of a big jazz orchestra (the big-band sound) is enriched by new and unexpected fine shades of sound.
Our objective is that valuable contemporary music should be available not only for a narrow public but to become a part of our everyday life just as it was the case in almost all of the preceding epochs of musical history.
During our playing together improvisation has an important role to play and thus gives a new sense to the concept of „chamber orchestra concert” enhancing the continuous stream of instant musical experience.