1) WITH THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
2) WITH THE REGIONAL ORCHESTRA OF NORMANDIE
SOLIST
JEAN-LUC FILLON
oboe & English horn (Paris West!)
piano
(Lisbon - Portugal)
jazz & oriental drums
(Barcelona - Spain)
jazz double bass
(Paris East !)
OBOA JAZZ TRIO
JOAO PAULO DA SILVA
JARROD CAGWIN
BRUNO ROUSSELET
By accepting Oboman's offer to bring jazz and symphonic music together, the Orchestre National d'lle de France has once again demonstrated its willingness to broaden the repertoire of this ensemble, whose mission is to disseminate the art of symphonic music throughout the vast region. Since 1924 and George Gerswhin's famous Rhapsody in Blue, jazz and classical music have often come together: Woody Herman, for whom Stravinsky wrote his Ebony Concerto; Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, both keenly interested in the classical music of the early 20th century; Charlie Parker and his string sessions; Stan Getz and his Focus album? Oboa Nomade" was born out of the encounter between an atypical oboist and an adventurous symphony orchestra, the juxtaposition of original compositions and classical composers influenced by jazz, and a delicate balance between written music and improvised passages. Oboman's music has its roots in classical music, its spontaneity in jazz and its flavour in traditional music from around the Mediterranean. What's more, the quartet's instrumentation is both classical and original - the oboe and tambourine, both native to Mesopotamia 2,800 and 5,000 years ago respectively, combined with the Western harmonies of the piano and the gracefulness of the jazz double bass - giving the ensemble a sound that is both highly original and natural.
PROGRAM (indicative)
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Quiet City by Aaron Copland
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Song of Flea Market by Jean-Luc Fillon and arrangement: Carine Bonnefoy
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Oborigins by Jean-Luc Fillon and arrangement: François Théberge
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Poséidos by Jean-Luc Fillon and arrangement: Carine Bonnefoy
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Jungle City by Jean-Luc Fillon and arrangement: Carine Bonnefoy
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Escales Orientales by Jacques Ibert/Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn/Jean-Luc Fillon and arrangements Alain Daniel
3) WITH THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF BRETAGNE
Vents de Printemps
Soloist: Jean-Luc Fillon
In a symphony orchestra, the woodwind ensemble is known as the “Petite Harmonie”. In 1781, Mozart wrote his Serenade in Eb Major for wind octet, laying the foundations for a new chamber music ensemble. Woodwinds are in pairs, complemented by two horns. (2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons and 2 horns). Apparently, instruments sound better in pairs! In 1885, Charles Gounod added the flute to this small harmony. The great diversity of timbres of the petite harmonie (flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns), the poetry and virtuosity of the ensemble's soloists, the swing of the rhythm section and the eloquence of an improvising soloist and master of ceremonies, breathe new energy and originality into this program.
PROGRAM
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Petite Symphonie by Charles Gounod
At the request of a Parisian wind ensemble, the Société de musique de chambre pour instruments à vent, directed by the flutist Paul Taffanel, Charles Gounod wrote a nonet for flute and wind octet. The work was premiered at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on 30 April 1885.
We will cross the Atlantic, as Ravel did in 1928, to meet American composers. We're changing styles and expanding our little band by adding a string double bass, drums and the nomadic oboe of improviser Jean-luc Oboman Fillon. Here, the oboe, a classical instrument par excellence, opens the doors to jazz and unbridled improvisation, happily exploiting a whole range of ornaments and melismas.
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Porgy & Bess by George Gershwin
George Gershwin begins with excerpts from Porgy & Bess, his famous opera premiered in 1935 at Boston's Colonial Theater: It ain't Necessarily So, My Man's Gone now, I Love You Porgy, Bess, You Is My Woman Now, Summertime and Soon, an excerpt from Strike up the Band.
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Echoes of Ellington
Evocation of the great Duke Ellington through some of his many compositions: Cottontail, The Mooche, Echoes of Harlem, in a sentimental Mood, prelude to a kiss, Caravan, Half the Fun... This was the heyday of the Big Band, orchestras made up mainly of wind instruments.
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Chick Corea, Children's Songs
Corea began writing the first song in this collection in 1971. It consists of short pieces of great melodic variety and contrast. Corea has said that he wanted to convey the simplicity, candour and beauty of a child. There are stylistic and structural parallels with Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos cycle.
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Dave Brubeck, Blue Rondo à la Turque
Blue Rondo a la Turque is a jazz standard composed by Dave Brubeck for the album Time Out (1959). It is one of the few jazz pieces of its time to have been composed in 9/8 time, an unusual rhythmic signature. The title of this piece represents the triple fusion from which it springs: Blue refers to the jazz style of the piece, in relation to the ‘blue notes’; Rondo means that it is constructed in verse-chorus form in classical terminology; à la Turque because it borrows a Turkish and Greek dance rhythm, like the karsilamas, with 4 unequal beats: 3 beats of 2 eighth notes and one beat of 3 eighth notes.
