Ill Wind

This piece is composed by Harold Arlen, arranged by Benny Carter (1942), transcribed by Dick Domek and was performed live by the University of Kentucky Jazz Ensemble directed by Miles Osland at the 2007 UK Band Spectacular. It features Angie Ortega on alto saxophone.

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Music

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• jazz
• jazzensemble
• bigbandjazz

[milesosland]

This performance was a transcription (re-enactment) of the great Benny Carter's solo and arrangement of Ill Wind, and it was played to perfection. The tempo is exact from the original recording and Angie played Benny's solo stylistically perfect. Listen to the original recording and compare, and then see if you think our performance was "sterile and emotionless".

Miles Osland

Director of Jazz Studies

University of Kentucky

[interstaffing]

tincanblower....

I agree; it seems kinda sterile and emotionless.. and I hate to say it but the sax player is playing too many notes and runs for it to be anything more than a technical display of her immense talent. Anyone who has heard the vocal version should agree...the singer adds lots...maybe that's why I think the song lacks a bit of 'humanity'? It's a song about misfortune and woe, yet it is displayed here as kind of light and 'airy'.

just my opinion.

[tincanblower]

I'll probably get slated for saying this - but the whole things seems to lack feeling to me. I know its a slow piece, but its a beautifully melodic pieve, and the whole thing just lacks 'oomph' and body.

Such a nice band set up, that brass section is swinging... but there's nothing driving the piece along.

Angie seems pretty good though. But again, what she's playing seems too rehearsed and 'accurate' to be good meaningful jazz.

Only my opinion - obviously!

[Grafschnitzel]

That girl can play the Sax!