Trumpeter, composer and arranger Daniel
Hersog's new album Night Devoid of Stars is due to be released
tomorrow (Friday) and it's a gem. Canadian Hersog is in his mid-thirties but
that hasn't deterred him from taking on the role of MD of an all-star big band
drawing its personnel from across North America.
The album
title was inspired by Dr Martin Luther King's words during the civil rights'
era (some twenty years before Hersog was born). Hersog's daily routine of
writing and arranging the material to a backdrop of early morning, wall-to-wall
television news programmes contributed to the composer's thought process with
the third track on the album - Makeshift
Memorial - somewhat prescient in these pandemic times.
Tenor
saxophonist Noah Preminger (a friend from student days) and pianist Frank
Carlberg (a tutor from Hersog's student days at the New England Conservatory)
make telling contributions on this Cellar Music recording. Six of seven tracks
were composed by Hersog, the other being an interesting take on Jerome Kern's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.
Daniel Hersog’s
Night Devoid of Stars is on Cellar
Music (cat no.CM051119), available from tomorrow (Friday 12).
Further details
from:
Russell
Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra:
Daniel Hersog (MD, composer, arranger); Chris Startup (alto sax, clarinet);
Michael Braverman (alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet); Noah Preminger (tenor
sax); Tom Keenlyside (tenor sax, flute, piccolo, alto flute); Ben Henriques
(baritone sax, bass clarinet); Michael Kim (trumpet, flugelhorn); Brad Turner
(trumpet, flugelhorn); Derry Byrne (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jocelyn Waugh
(trumpet, flugelhorn); Rod Murray (trombone); Jim Hopson (trombone); Brian
Harding (trombone); Sharman King (bass trombone); Frank Carlberg (piano); James
Meger (bass); Michael Sarin (drums)
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