{"id":2886,"date":"2010-05-07T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2010-05-07T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:22:00","slug":"fred-ho-and-the-green-monster-big-band-celestial-green-monster-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/fred-ho-and-the-green-monster-big-band-celestial-green-monster-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Ho and The Green Monster Big Band: Celestial Green Monster (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_huJnG8dEQz8\/S-RmE3dT9wI\/AAAAAAAABkg\/eLRiOWTvM24\/s1600\/celestial_green_monster_150.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_huJnG8dEQz8\/S-RmE3dT9wI\/AAAAAAAABkg\/eLRiOWTvM24\/s320\/celestial_green_monster_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Divertido y elegante el estreno de The Green Monster Big Band del saxofonista Fred Ho. Pero no s\u00f3lo eso, puesto que adem\u00e1s demuestra tener muy pocos complejos.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>El inicio consiste en sendas versiones de material ajeno al jazz. Abre el disco, de modo muy breve en apenas dos minutos y medio, el tema de la serie de televisi\u00f3n <i>Spiderman<\/i>. A continuaci\u00f3n la <i>big band<\/i> se luce con el cl\u00e1sico del rock \u00abIn-A-Gadda-Da-Vida\u00bb, popularizado por Iron Butterfly a finales de los a\u00f1os 60. Su recreaci\u00f3n es muy variada. Dividida en cinco partes, el arreglo del tema evita que su ejecuci\u00f3n se convierta en una repetici\u00f3n machacona, logrando llevar a un tema aparentemente simple (el original est\u00e1 basado en la repetici\u00f3n de un <i>riff<\/i>), a los terrenos de la improvisaci\u00f3n. Entre los solistas destaca sobremanera Mary Halvorson, que est\u00e1 especialmente brillante e incisiva con su guitarra.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A continuaci\u00f3n el CD recoge tres composiciones de Fred Ho, que recupera \u00abLiberation Genesis\u00bb y \u00abBlues to the Freedom Fighters\u00bb (compuestas a mediados de la d\u00e9cada de los 70), y aporta la suite de casi 40 minutos titulada \u00abThe Struggle for a New World\u00bb, compuesta en 2006. Todos estos temas rayan a gran nivel, dejando constancia de la calidad de Ho como compositor y arreglista. Precisamente esos arreglos permiten el lucimiento de los distintos solistas. Su trabajo, bastante m\u00e1s contenido pero no por ello de menor calidad que lo que acostumbran en otras formaciones, sirve precisamente para resaltar las composiciones. Gracias a ello se alcanzan momentos de un gran nivel (especialmente en ciertos movimientos de la larga suite), que sirven para poner al d\u00eda el concepto de las <i>big band<\/i>, logrando uno de los mejores discos en ese formato publicado en los \u00faltimos meses.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pachi Tapiz<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fred Ho and The Green Monster Big Band: <i>Celestial Green Monster\u00a0<\/i>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fred Ho (l\u00edder, saxo bar\u00edtono), Bobby Zankel (saxo alto), Jim Hobbs (saxo alto), Hafez Modirzadeh (saxo tenor), Salim Washington (saxo tenor), Stanton Davis (trompeta), Brian Kilpatrick (trompeta), Samir El-Amin (trompeta), Taylor Ho Bynum (trompeta), Robert Pilkington (tromb\u00f3n), Marty Wehner (tromb\u00f3n), Richard Harper (tromb\u00f3n), Earl MacIntyre (tromb\u00f3n contrabajo), David Harris (tromb\u00f3n contrabajo), Art Hirahara (piano, teclados), Wess Brown (contrabajo y bajo el\u00e9ctrico), Royal Hartigan (bater\u00eda)<\/div>\n<div>Invitados especiales en \u00abIn-A-Gadda-Da-Vida\u00bb: Abraham Gomez-Delgado (voz), Haleh Abghari (voz), Mary Halvorson (guitarra)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1 \u00abSpiderman Theme\u00bb 2:17 (Paul Francis Webster, J. Robert Harris)<\/div>\n<div>2-6 \u00abIn-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (In the Garden of Eden)\u00bb (Doug Ingle) 16:00<\/div>\n<div>2 \u00abBlue Planet, My Love\u00bb 6:50 \/ 3 \u00abJourney to the Dark Heart, Enter the Serpents of Stratification\u00bb 2:44 \/ 4 \u00abMastodon, My Friend\u00bb 0:44 \/ 5 \u00abWhere Angels, Mastodons, Sabertooths and Whales Fear to Tread (Paradise for the Parasites)\u00bb 1:27 \/ 6 \u00abThe Tipping Point of No Return\u00bb 4:11<\/div>\n<div>7 \u00abLiberation Genesis\u00bb (Fred Ho) 6:53\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>8 \u00abBlues to the Freedom Fighters\u00bb (Fred Ho) 9:54<\/div>\n<div>9-15 \u00abThe Struggle for a New World Suite\u00bb (Fred Ho) 38:17<\/div>\n<div>9 \u00abPart of the Solution, NOT part of the Problem\u00bb 2:30 \/ 10 \u00abOriginal, Organic and African\u00bb 9:28 \/ 11 \u00abBattleground, Earth Blues\u00bb 6:14 \/ 12 \u00abPatience, Passion and Praxis\u00bb 3:07 \/ 13 \u00abUp Against the Wall You *$%@# Gods of Corporate Profit!\u00bb 1:37 \u00abPaper Tigers are Real Scaredy Cats\u00bb 6:13 \u00abGuerrillas Gone Wild\u00bb 9:13<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Grabado el 17 de diciembre de 2008 en Systems Two, Brooklyn, Nueva York. Publicado en 2010 por Mutablemusic. Big Red Media. Mutable \/ Big Red Media 001.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divertido y elegante el estreno de The Green Monster Big Band del saxofonista Fred Ho. Pero no s\u00f3lo eso, puesto que adem\u00e1s demuestra tener muy pocos complejos.\u00a0 El inicio consiste en sendas versiones de material ajeno al jazz. Abre el disco, de modo muy breve en apenas dos minutos y<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/fred-ho-and-the-green-monster-big-band-celestial-green-monster-2010\/\">Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-pachi","post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2858,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/top-ten-segundo-intento\/","url_meta":{"origin":2886,"position":0},"title":"Top Ten: segundo intento","author":"Tomajazz","date":"23 junio, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"En esta ocasi\u00f3n versiones de temas de hoy, de ayer y de siempre. \"Well You Needn't\". 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