[Dixielandjazz] Bagpipes in Jazz

[Steve Barbone]

Given the recent bagpipe thread, is this where bagpipe jazz is going? There
is a picture of the bagpipe player in the Times, well worth seeing if you
are able to get the article. (or buy the print version)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/arts/music/21alle.html?ref=music

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


Excerpted:

Latin Sounds of Many Parts, Even Bagpipes

NY TIMES  - By ALLAN KOZINN - August 21, 2007

A few hours after the second performance of Osvaldo Golijov¹s ³Pasión Según
San Marcos² ended on Sunday evening, some of the musicians from the Orquesta
la Pasión ensemble reconvened at the Allen Room for what was billed as a jam
session but was actually something more.

Taken at face value, it was a high-energy concert of mostly Latin American
pop, with European and American undercurrents as well, in the form of
flamenco, jazz and electronic music. . . but here they were played straight,
without the alchemy of orchestral strings and a choir, and with an
improvisatory spark, instead of a composer¹s commands, to drive them. . .

But surely the most unusual solo performance of the evening was by Cristina
Pato, a Spanish bagpiper, who played a wailing, trilling, fluidly microtonal
line in ³Alala,² a traditional piece, and ³Africa,² a composition of her
own. Ms. Pato¹s sound is unlike any bagpipe playing you¹ve heard: imagine
the timbres of an oboe, a metal-ready electric guitar and a screaming
trumpet rolled into a single, virtuosic burst of energy. . .