Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
Jez Nelson presents a set by New York bandleader-composer Darcy James Argue and his 18-piece big band the Secret Society, recorded at Cafe Oto during the 2010 London Jazz Festival.
Jez Nelson presents a set by one of New York's most exciting young bandleader-composers - Darcy James Argue and his eighteen-piece big band the Secret Society, recorded at Cafe Oto during the 2010 London Jazz Festival. Argue formed the Secret Society in 2005 and has an approach that fuses tradition and innovation. He says his aim is to evoke "an alternate musical history in which the dance orchestras that ruled the Swing Era never went extinct, but remained a popular and vital part of the evolving musical landscape". Argue's 2009 debut album, Infernal Machines, featured on more than seventy "best of the year" lists. This year he and the band topped the Rising Star, Big Band; Rising Star, Arranger and Rising Star, Composer categories in the DownBeat Critics' Poll and won two Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producers: Joby Waldman & Russell Finch.
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Vicky Tilson Quartet
The Crunch
- 大象传媒 Introducing track.
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Darcy James Argue鈥檚 Secret Society recorded at Caf茅 Oto on 18 November 2010
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Darcy James Argue
Phobos
Composer: Darcy James Argue
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Darcy James Argue
Dymaxion
Composer: Darcy James Argue
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Darcy James Argue
Habeas Corpus
Composer: Darcy James Argue
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Darcy James Argue
Obsidian Flow
Composer: Darcy James Argue
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Feature on New York painter Jean Michel Basquiat鈥檚 influence on composer Lisle Ellis
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Lisle Ellis
Incantation and Ascent
- Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat.
- Henceforth Records.
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Charlie Parker
Chasin' the Bird
- Chasin鈥� the Bird.
- Synergy Distribution.
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Lisle Ellis
Suicide Study
- Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat.
- Henceforth Records.
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Lisle Ellis
Perishable Fig
- Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat.
- Henceforth Records.
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Darcy James Argue鈥檚 Secret Society recorded at Caf茅 Oto on 18 November 2010
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Darcy James Argue
Induction Effect
Composer: Darcy James Argue
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Darcy James Argue
Jacobin Club
Composer: Darcy James Argue
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Darcy James Argue
Transit
Composer: Darcy James Argue
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Broadcast
- Mon 13 Dec 2010 23:15大象传媒 Radio 3
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