Bulgarian Bulge - Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Thomas Gansch

The Zurich Jazz Orchestra plays Milcho Leviev's Bulgarian Bulge (Smesano Horo, as played by Don Ellis)
Live at MOODS Zurich, March 29th 2018
Steffen Schorn: Cond., Thomas Gansch: feat. Trumpet
Reto Anneler, Lukas Heuss, Christoph Grab, Thomas Lüthi, Nils Fischer: Saxes
Patrick Ottiger, Wolfgang Häuptli, Bernhard Schoch, Daniel Schenker: Trumpets
René Mosele, Maurus Twerenbold, Silvio Cadotsch, Don Randolph: Trombones Jan Schreiner: Tuba
Gregor Müller: Piano Theo Kapilidis: Guitar Patrick Sommer: Bass Pius Baschnagel, Elmar Frey: Drums

[@m100smorelli6]

Great orchestra ! Great musicians ! Great Thomas Gansch !

[@TodorTsachev]

RIP Milcho Leviev. А unique musician who brought Bulgarian music to jazz. Бог да те прости, Милчо!

[@borisgorski7574]

Milcho Leliev's Immortal ! R.I.P great Maestro !

[@pippoagostino3668]

Extraordinary musicians. Thomas Gansch you are out of series. My dream before dying, is to see you in live concert playing all your trumpets, your music and something of Don Ellis. Thomas the BIG, my respects. pippo agostino

[@scdoty777]

I think Gansch is explaining so called Bulgarian rhythms: think this may be the Klezmer style where meter is split into uneven combinations of short (two metric units) and long (three metric units) beats, corresponding to a dancers' short and long steps. Like: dah dah. Dah dah dah. Dah dah. Dah dah dah. You can hear it in the song

[@gwiyomikim5988]

It’s got a good beat and is easy to dance to.👍🏼👍🏼

[@stephenbollinger2575]

I’d be super curious to see a deep dive into the piece Bulgarian Bulge by Don Ellis and how it may or may not have included elements of Bulgarian folk music. Definitely heard some harmony and meter during that video that he may have borrowed.

[@anonagain]

Better than the Don Ellis version :-) Thanks for uploading!

[@justuss4375]

Awesome! Thanks for uploading! :)

[@0megadwarf]

taking it at a slightly more managable tempo was a good choice

[@orquestanacionaldejazzdemexico]

Nice

[@vladimirsgurev5757]

👍❤️

[@watashiosaru]

Not difficult for them? Unbelievable!

[@gkwoodlands]

Trombone solo?

[@uluruwurst1444]

Und wie lang hat er jetzt dafür geübt?

[@da11king]

what time signature is that????????

[@coolbreezemoe-d7088]

33/16

[@daniel-schenker]

There are 2 cells: 2 2 2 2, 3 2 2 (A) (number of 8ths notes) 2 2 2 3 2, 3 2 2 (B) .. and 2 different sections in the tune: A B (33/8) Tutti in the beginning, solo part, for instance B B (36/8) Clarinet, Tb, Tpt part

[@blur5725]

Your typical 33/16

[@georgegrexa9536]

Your Trumpet player is amazing, once he got warmed up he nailed it. The band never got it. Don Ellis had a practice band in La. In case someopne left the band. That's why he had 3 drummers/ plus himself. Nice try No Cigar.

[@cellstar1373]

the trumpet player is Thomas Gansch, he is a legendary trumpeter. The orchestra is an orchestra formed if professional swiss jazz musicians.