Jazz and Strings - Duke Ellington - Shablul Club
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Doors at Shablul club open an hour and a half before the show starts. It's recommended to arrive close to door opening. This is the first show in the Jazz and Strings series #2 with the Amit Friedman Octet, a follow-up to the series by popular demand after the first series sold out and audiences loved it. Saxophonist-composer-arranger Amit Friedman is one of Israel's leading jazz musicians, winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Composers, and his beloved octet unites a jazz quartet with a string and bow quartet, drawing sparks of delight from the combination. The show is dedicated to one of the giants in the history of jazz - Duke Ellington, who was far more than a composer and bandleader. He was a master of color, orchestration and atmosphere who turned the language of jazz into rich, sophisticated and deep music. In Friedman's original arrangements, the strings join the jazz quartet to reveal new sides of familiar works - from sweeping groove and swing to the most lyrical and intimate moments. Among the iconic pieces performed: It Don't Mean a Thing, Caravan, Solitude, Take the A Train, In a Sentimental Mood. The meeting between a jazz quartet (saxophone-piano-bass-drums) and a classical string quartet (two violins-viola-cello) is not routine, but every time this meeting has occurred throughout the history of jazz, the combination of jazz freedom and rhythm with classical structure, depth and refinement has given birth to new layers of musical richness and beauty that left a powerful mark on audiences at live shows and on album listeners. Especially memorable are the immortal albums and iconic performances with strings that began with Charlie Parker with Strings in 1950, followed by the Modern Jazz Quartet joining the classical Beaux Arts String Quartet in 1960, Stan Getz improvising a solo over Eddie Sauter's string piece Focus, Bill Evans' Symbiosis in 1974, and later projects by Lee Konitz with the Axis string quartet, and Joshua Redman with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet.