Great review of AUTUMN WIND in the newspaper from New Jersey/New York, the Aquarian Weekly!11/28/2017
Great review of AUTUMN WIND in the newspaper from New Jersey/New York, the Aquarian Weekly:
"DuBois, 39, is an endlessly inventive guitarist with a penchant for arranging delicate passages that could pass for Baroque if they weren’t so damn futuristic and cool. This is fusion of the highest order. With seven CDs in the last 13 years, looks like I’m headed down to DuBois Blvd. to catch up with this amazing mathematician of a music-maker." Visit the FROM UNITED STATES tab on the REVIEWS page for a link to read the full review! Germany's Classical / Jazz magazine Fono Forum calls AUTUMN WIND a "delicately-complex masterpiece"!11/27/2017
Germany's Classical / Jazz magazine Fono Forum calls AUTUMN WIND a "delicately-complex masterpiece" and is giving away a free copy of the CD to each new subscriber of the magazine! Visit the AUS DEUTSCHLAND tab on the REVIEWS page for more reviews from Germany!
Germany's main newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, reviewed the Scott DuBois Quartet's concert at Jazz Initative Frankfurt and called the concert "a true experience" and "excitingly vivid"! Visit the AUS DEUTSCHLAND tab on the REVIEWS page to read more reviews from Germany!
Beautiful train ride through the Alps to Brixen, Italy, where the Scott DuBois Quartet performs tonight at Dekadenz, starting at 2030h!
Soundcheck tonight before the sold out Scott DuBois Quartet concert at BR-Klassik’s Studio 2 in Munich, Germany. The concert will be broadcast December 1st in Europe on BR-Klassik!
The Scott DuBois Quartet had an amazing tour in Romania. Thanks so much to the wonderful promoters, Rozana and her partner Voicu (not pictured), for bringing us to Romania and taking such great care of us, and thanks to Adrian for the incredible food, wine and stereo system (all three of which he made!) We can't wait to come back next year!
It was great to play the beautiful Centrul Cutural Ion Manu concert hall in Otopeni, Romania! Here's a photo of our soundcheck before the concert.
November 17 Scott DuBois Quartet concert at Jazzinitative Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany11/15/2017
Frankfurt! The Scott DuBois Quartet is performing at Jazzinitative Frankfurt this Friday, 17 November, starting at 20h. Here's a nice article about it from France Musique:
https://www.francemusique.fr/jazz/jazz-trotter-scott-dubois-autumn-wind-38557 Bucharest! The Scott DuBois Quartet is soon performing there for three nights: 18 November at the Centrul Cultural Ion Manu and 19/20 November at the Green Hours Jazz Club. You can purchase your tickets at www.bilet.ro
Tickets now available for Scott DuBois Quartet November 22 concert at BR Klassik in Munich, Germany11/9/2017
Munich! You can now purchase your tickets for the Scott DuBois Quartet's November 22nd concert at BR Klassik's Studio 2. The concert will be recorded and broadcast December 1st in Europe on BR Klassik:
https://www.br-klassik.de/programm/konzerte/ausstrahlung-1102862.html AUTUMN WIND receives 5 (out of 5) Stars and is named "Album of the Month" in the November 2017 issue of Germany's Stereo Magazine!
All About Jazz gives AUTUMN WIND 4.5 (out of 5) Stars and says:
"Scott DuBois has managed to do the impossible in bringing sound to season to sound." Visit the FROM UNITED STATES tab on the REVIEWS page for a link to read the full review!REVIEWS The Czech Republic's JazzPort calls AUTUMN WIND, "one of the strongest jazz albums of 2017!"11/3/2017
The Czech Republic's JazzPort gives AUTUMN WIND a 100/100 score and calls it:
"stunningly beautiful...one of the strongest jazz albums of 2017!" Visit the FROM CZECH REPUBLIC tab on the REVIEWS page for a link to read the full review in Czech! Great review of AUTUMN WIND in the November/December 2017 issue of Germany's Jazzthetik Magazine!:
"...such magnificent soundscapes that impress with their beauty...DuBois himself is a sound wizard, who casts sparkling pieces of sound into poetic sound paintings." Visit the AUS DEUTSCHLAND tab on the REVIEWS page to read the review in German! Here's another great review of AUTUMN WIND, this one from the Something Else! webzine!:
"...highly impressionistic...brimming with even more original ideas...a complete mastery of the electric guitar’s tonal palette...full of timbral richness...DuBois’s desire to blur the lines between creative jazz, chamber music and folk forms is a quest others before him have taken on, but the challenge of putting it all together both coherently and provocatively is where many have fallen short. Not so with Autumn Wind, it excels at that." Visit the FROM UNITED STATES tab on the REVIEWS page for a link to read the full review! Here's what Spain's Tomajazz has to say about AUTUMN WIND!:
"Autumn Wind is the poetic journey whose tools are a brush and a multi-colored palette that captures passion and reflection...passion and dramatic force marrying the brain and heart in a single spirit." Visit the DE ESPAÑA tab on the REVIEWS page for a link to read the full review in Spanish! Portugal's A Certeza de Música calls AUTUMN WIND:
"A truly fascinating album...an intense flame of an exceptional guitarist, full of creative possibilities...a record so marvelous..." Visit the DE PORTUGAL tab on the REVIEWS page for a link to read the full review in Portuguese! AUTUMN WIND now available to order on Amazon + iTunes! (scroll down to read the album liner notes)10/6/2017
You can now order the AUTUMN WIND vinyl (2LP/180g), CD, digital on Amazon & digital on iTunes, out Oct. 13th (North America) & Oct. 27th (Europe, Asia, Australia) on the ACT record label!:
Amazon: http://a.co/cuGMoT7 iTunes: http://apple.co/2yMtuY5 Scott DuBois / guitar & conductor Gebhard Ullmann / tenor sax & bass clarinet Thomas Morgan / bass Kresten Osgood / drums Eva León / violin I Conway Kuo / violin II William Frampton / viola Sarah Rommel / cello Erin Lesser / flute BJ Karpen / oboe Elisabeth Stimpert / clarinet Michael Harley / bassoon Here are the liner notes I wrote for AUTUMN WIND which explain more about the project: My vision for this album came as I drank coffee in a German train station. I was returning to New York after touring with my quartet. My idea: To use three quartets to create a conversation between the world of contemporary classical composition and that of modern jazz composition and improvisation. Autumn would be my theme. Carrying out my plan, I first composed twelve pieces for my quartet and recorded them in Copenhagen. Each piece begins with a different note, generating a twelve-tone row I used in various parts of the compositions. Later, in New York, building on the fluid performances and improvisations in those recordings, I composed, conducted and recorded pieces for classical string and woodwind quartets to be superimposed on the jazz performances. The first piece is for solo guitar. Each subsequent piece adds one instrument, culminating in a finale (for twelve musicians) in which the twelve-tone row structures the entire composition. Among other compositional techniques I employed were aleatoricism, minimalism and serialized rhythms, pitches and dynamics. Always I focused on the beautiful melody and harmony suggested to me by autumn’s permutations. This musical journey begins with the shifting light of early autumn and continues with a tranquil stroll at dusk. The season’s tiniest composers appear after dark. The mystery of the animal kingdom’s autumn journey coincides with the season’s changing leaves. Birds call and fly in grand formation through sunlight, clouds, rain and blustery winds. The autumn wind carries sounds from near and far. Moonbeams penetrate the deep forest. Sunrise reveals farm fields covered with snow. Chimney smoke rises against the blue sky in bright sunlight. With night, stars sparkle and flare. The aurora borealis paints the sky. The journey ends in quiet reflection. Scott DuBois New York City June 21, 2017 Very happy to announce that the new Scott DuBois album AUTUMN WIND will be released on the ACT record label, October 13th (North America) & October 27th (Europe, Asia, Australia) on vinyl (double-LP/180g), CD and digitally. The new record is the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed WINTER LIGHT album, and features Gebhard Ullmann, Thomas Morgan, Kresten Osgood + a string & woodwind octet. You can read all about the concept for the new album in the AUTUMN WIND PRESS RELEASE!
I had a great time all day Sunday conducting these wonderful musicians in a string/wind octet recording of my new compositions for the next record!:
Eva León - violin Conway Kuo - violin William Frampton - viola Sarah Rommel - cello Erin Lesser - flute BJ Karpen - oboe Elisabeth Stimpert - clarinet Michael Harley - bassoon |