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QUOTES ABOUT ORANGE THEN BLUE
 "It was
left up to Orange Then Blue to combine a grand mix of collective ensemble playing with
individual expression. This band was the only group that provided a real surprise during
the festival."
--Abendzeitung, Munich (Berlin Jazz Festival-Nov. 95)
"Orange Then Blue can swing as hard as anyone...expanding the tradition ....ambitious
nature...the band pulls off its ideas." --Musician |
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| "The Twelve 'kids' of Orange Then
Blue, associated more or less with New York's Knitting Factory, excavate uninhibitedly in
the quarries of Jazz History, freely appropriating themes, motives, sounds and styles,
dismembering them and unashamedly splicing them all together again in daring new
combinations. There is a sort of 'freak-aesthetic,' which we know already from Charles
Mingus and Gil Evans (admittedly among the models for band-leader George Schuller),
offering a provocative, ebulliant music: a precarious game without a safety net. The
combinations are cleverly chosen, the individual patchwork elements exactingly tailored,
all fitting precisely with the music's well-defined rhythm/meter changes and sharp
stylistic breaks. This challenging music demands much from the listener, because its many
parts yield their meanings only when heard in the total context." |
| . --Tages-Anzeiger Zurich
(Berlin Jazz Festival-Nov. '95) |
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| "..increasingly tight,
challenging music. Five albums, many tours and kudos later, OTB has moved into pinpoint
ensemble focus." |
| --Down Beat |
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| "The musical maturation
of Orange Then Blue continues at a startling pace...a wonderful sense of spontaneous
fun..." |
| --Boston Globe |
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| "Flawless and often
hilarious...the band has grown even earthier in their world music extrapolations...the
continuing evolution of a first-rate ensemble." |
| --Boston Phoenix |
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| "This band is not merely
promising, it's arrived..." |
| --Isthmus Magazine |
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| "When a band as culturally
diverse as Orange Then Blue takes the stage , you don't need a playlist. Instead, bring a
good atlas." |
| --Calgary Sun |
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| "Wow....what a band....Fantastic!" |
| --Joe Lovano, saxophonist & Blue
Note Recording Artist |
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