''Orchestra'' is an album by the German double bassist and composer

Eberhard Weber Eberhard Weber (born 22 January 1940, in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, he is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, m ...

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Reception

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review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 2 stars, saying, "Glorious sound, little "pure jazz" content though."Wynn, R
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'' wrote that Weber "splits the album between bass soliloquies and counterpoint with a chilly brass section, yet the prettiest piece on the disc is the synthesizer tune 'One Summer's Evening'." Tyran Grillo, writing for Between Sound and Space, commented: "''Orchestra'' is Weber at his purest. A lovely exposition of his talents, technical and melodic alike. Certainly not the one you'll want to start with, but by no means a shabby place to spend the night before continuing on your journey."

Track listing

All compositions by Eberhard Weber. # "Seven Movements" – 12:20 # "Broken Silence" – 1:59 # "Before Dawn" – 5:23 # "Just a Moment" – 2:35 # "Air" – 4:16 # "Ready Out There?" – 5:09 # "Too Early to Leave" – 3:07 # "One Summer's Evening" – 4:09 # "A Daydream" – 3:22 # "Trio" – 3:58 # "Epilogue" – 4:01

Personnel

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double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

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*Herbert Joos, Anton Jillich –

fluegelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

*Rudolf Diebetsberger, Thomas Hauschild –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

*Wolfgang Czelustra, Andreas Richter –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

*Winfried Rapp –

bass trombone The bass trombone (german: Bassposaune, it, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. Modern instruments are pitched in the same B♭ as the tenor trombone but with a larger bore, bell and mouthpiece to ...

*Franz Stagl –

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References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums Eberhard Weber albums 1988 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher