ZJM DON MENZA

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you thank you very much and welcome and I'm very happy and proud to be back again here in Skopje working with that wonderful band here more than a year ago I had the pleasure to play a concert with a Beatles music and tonight we have something very different and very special for you prepared we started with a song called TNT about the composer and the range of that song I will tell you a little bit later I just tell you the trombone section who had been featured on that song so please give a big hand for troubles is such a dick Karofsky there's blood of the brettski the mere Amiri nicola is this key yes we thought to start the concert with the trombone section would be a nice idea the song as I told you is called TNT and original it was written for two tenor saxophones so it was called tenor and ten or so TNT and then the song was played with Tanner and trumpet so it's still TNT and then it was played with Sonora and trombone so it's still TNT even the same song and tonight actually we should call it t and t and t and t because it's played was four trombones here the composer and the range of that song is musician we are really happy and proud to feature tonight he's an incredible arranger as you heard he is a great composer as you heard he's a fantastic saxophone player and a beautiful personal person and we are really happy to have the chance to work with him a couple of days so he is also here since Friday this week so it was great to have him here because he is a truly legend through the legend just on not just on a saxophone also on composing arranging he was together with the great big bands in jazz to talk about Buddy Rich your Maynard Ferguson longtime member of the Louie Bellson big band he was touring for more than 20 years with Henry Mancini so he really is a true legend he knows everything firsthand and so it's also great for these musicians to work with somebody like him for a couple of days and learn about this jazz history and jazz playing and so we are really proud and happy to have a chance to president present him tonight here on a stage so please welcome and give a big hand for mr. Don Mensa Don Manza [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] charade charade Gong bangs are and I just want to introduce you the rhythm section for tonight because they have really a lot of work and actually I'm the conductor of the band but the real conductor of a big band is always sitting more or less back behind there so and he has a real hard job in he's doing a great job there so give a big hand on drums for Victor Villa Park Ski we have on-base Kiril to the chess team [Music] on piano there is Gordon's passive ski and/or guitar Zorin costantino ski yeah the first composition was by Henry Mancini as I told you a musician Don worked a lot with and don't arrange this song called charade and the next song is composition by Don and arrangement is called Faviana I don't know if you want to tell a little story about that if we have extra microphone here let's see I was in New Orleans I had a quintet and we were gonna make a jazz video for the well it doesn't matter for who but we did make a jazz video and I didn't have a title for this song and we were rehearsing at Lulu White's mahogany hall in New Orleans and as we were rehearsing and the cameras were all around us Lulu White's mahogany Hall is a Pullman style room very long and narrow and at the very end of it there was a doorway where the people come in and and there was a girl standing there and it was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon and the Sun was behind her and there's something a strange phenomenon that happens with ladies with cotton dresses on with the Sun behind them and I said whoa and immediately seated Walton the piano player said oh man I saw her first I'd say wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute and then in this beautiful foreign accent she wanted to know if she needed a reservation for that night and they were sold out and I said no no she doesn't need a reservation she's sitting at my table at the band table well I saw her that night and her name was favi Anna and she was from Sao Paulo in Brazil and I said now I have a title for my song and this is how the song came to be what it is father ah no [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Fabiana gone Mensa Zoran kasatonov ski [Applause] yeah for the next song we would like to feature the saxophone section and this reason I would like to introduce for you to saxophone section actually we have a great leader to player here and more I said a little bit organized of that big band so give a big hand for Kyra Koosman of here kusmanov on alto we have borislav of a sitting off and as this arrangement by Don of great standard bikini Baron is Mullis written in the tradition of the vibrato sound special saxophone section from the Woody Herman band there is a feature for two tenors and the baritone and for sure done mentor so we have on baritone saxophone even try an auskey I don't know one of them I know both of them are even off so that's that's clear they always chasing me with eager and even so you can choose one of them is even another one is the ego even ego and even even off and for sure the arranger of the song of voyage as a soloist here again a great hand for Don Mensah voyage [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yegor even of Igor even of even even of even try an auskey and gunman's are done Mensa on voyage for the next piece we want to feature our lead auto player with a wonderful ballad written by Don man sir and this ballad Mallis was written in memory of marshal royal who was a great great Alto player very well known as a leader to player from The Count Basie band and so he he was really one of the great art of jazz players and Don Mensa wrote a wonderful ballot to honor this great musician and we are happy and proud to play this arrangement composition by Don Mensa now featuring Kyra Koosman off on Royal Kyra cosmonaut [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Kira Kira customer of Ryan Kira kusmanov for the next piece we're happy to present one member of the trumpet section and he's playing the solo on the piece so welcome in front out here try to work up on trumpets just wanna introduce you the rest of the trumpet section where from left to right senator xenon trumpets there's total package earphone trumpets Alexander's la deskey and on trumpet William Barak offski so now you have all the names of the band and the title of the next piece is a mother who another who [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Kiril Tuvok chef ski fracture Volkov Kirikou Smirnoff and Don man sir another who with one more beautiful ballot Don Manza arranged which is called Nina never knew and this is our second last piece and for the ending we have a special piece I will tell you later on but now Nina never knew [Applause] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] Nina never knew Don Mansa Don Mensa yeah we worked for this program just the last three days so I really want to give a big hand for this great fantastic band here in Skokie so if I began today such an big bands they really did a great job with the music from nan Mansur and so we are really thankful having the chance to come down here and work with this great orchestra and I hope they get enough support so they can go on with their work here three great that they're creating this band here working on such a high level and so please support the band so that they can go on thank you and as I told you we have for the ending a very special piece by Don it's really an arrangement composition by him which is in almost every library of every big band around the world because it's its big band standard at its best he wrote this this arrangement especially for the Buddy Rich band it was tremendously successful with that band and out of this it came to almost every library around and so it's a great piece of music great plate and by the big band here and so we are happy to close our set here at this jazz day in scope year with grooving heart by Don Mansur grooving heart [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] growing hard grooving hard don't mention the jam big bands thank you very much Kira Koosman off borislav will easily know even even of Egor even of even train of scheme on the trombones plenum the Brits key Sasha nikolewski da Mary Mary Nicola recess key we have on a trumpet synodos ain Treacher václav total package f Alexander Zaleski and very impaired Akatsuki and the rhythm section Gordon's Podolski on piano Kiril to make Chesky on the bass Zorin Colinas key on the guitar Victor Villa pause key on drums the Satyam big band featuring Don Mensa Don Manza signe final [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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Length: 91min 0sec (5460 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 04 2020