Dan Gailey Jazz Orchestra - What Did You Dream?

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Dan Gailey Jazz Orchestra, “What Did You Dream?”
OA2 22071
CURRENTLY #52 ON JAZZWEEK RADIO CHART

“...bold and creative and yet always swinging, nothing is static. Everything moves.”

- Chuck Berg

Best known to the jazz world as the composer/arranger of challenging charts played by top ensembles around the globe and the 20-year director of the award-winning jazz program at the University of Kansas, Gailey's writing has been formally recognized by awards such as the IAJE's 1996 Gil Evans Fellowship. In this, his long overdue debut album, the Dan Gailey Jazz Orchestra gives body and soul to an inspired program of originals whose art and craft call to mind the exotic colors of Ellington, the throbbing pulse of Basie, the open-ended modernism of Gil Evans and the adventurous reframings of the big band tradition by Maria Schneider.

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TRACKS:

1 Audacity 7:42
2 Point No Point 9:30
3 Early Light 6:07
4 In A Big Way 6:48
5 What Did You Dream? 12:01
6 11th Hour (for Michael Brecker) 9:25

PRODUCTION:

Produced by Gene Aitken
Recorded by Greg Heimbecker at
the University of Northern Colorado
Recording Studio; Greeley, CO, on
December 5-6, 2009
Mixed by Jim Linahon at
LMP Studios, Claremont, CA
Mastered by Robert Vosgien at
Capitol Records, Hollywood, CA
Liner notes by Dr. Chuck Berg
Cover design by John Bishop

PERFORMERS:

Dan Gailey Jazz Orchestra:
Saxophones
John Gunther, alto/sop.
Steve Owen, alto/sop.
Don Aliquo, tenor
Peter Sommer, tenor
Wil Swindler, baritone

Trumpets
John Davis, lead
Vern Sielert
Al Hood
Steve Leisring
Kevin Whalen

Trombones
Nat Wickham
Paul McKee
Dave Glenn
Gary Mayne

Rhythm
Dana Landry, piano
Steve Kovalcheck, guitar
Erik Applegate, bass
Jim White, drums
Gray Barrier, vibes
(on “Early Light”)

REVIEWS:

All Music Guide (Adam Greenberg)
While Origin Records focuses on the Northwest, the offshoot label OA2 has a habit of finding exceptional jazz hidden away in the Midwest. A case in point is Dan Gailey, a jazz director from the University of Kansas who has a following as a composer for large ensembles. Here, he gets a chance to show off the reason behind his following. The album o...

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