Re: [LAU] [New music]: Edgar and the fog (bigband)

On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:12:09 +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band Nowadays electric amplification isn't an issue, so loudness and directionality of the instrument isn't that important anymore, but the bassoon and similar instruments are not native big band instruments. I'm not that much a big band enthusiast, I guess the only clean big band record I own is "Two Little Animals" from the "Vienna Art Orchestra" and maybe you could consider a Tim Isfort Orchestra CD I own a big band recording, too, while I own the latter because I was involved, not because I like the music. IMO big bands make sense for old Jazz and Rock'n'Roll, but nowadays I consider big bands as obsolete. I suspect the "Brian Setzer Orchestra" is the only existing big band, that still does reach a huge audience of listeners with different tastes in music and different interests. Other existing big bands, just reach an audience with an explicit taste in music and interests, such as e.g. ballroom dance. However, when using synthesizers to imitate classical music, big band music, etc. there are a few things to consider, if you want to make it sound authentic. One thing is the orchestration, but usually we nowadays don't like to limit our music to native orchestrations ;). That Jeanette describes her music as big band music does fit well as a description. The orchestration fits better to that of a radio orchestra, but since radio orchestras could play different styles of music, "big band music" narrows down the style, while it still could be everything between a jazz big band playing John Coltrane and James Last playing ABBA.