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The September sessions

Brussels Jazz Orchestra


Tracks :

1. Warp 9 (Bert Joris)
2. When spring begins (Frank Vaganée)
3. Celebration suite (Michel Herr)
a. Prelude
b. Bells
c. The next twenty years

4. Touch her soft lips and part (Sir William Walton / arr. Florian Ross)
5. Seasoned (Frank Vaganée)
6. Alone at last (Bert Joris)
7. Tarantulas (Erwin Vann)

Musicians :

Serge Plume, Michel Paré, Laurent Blondiau, Gino Lattuca - trumpet
Marc Godfroid, Lode Mertens, Jack Coenen - trombone
Jan De Bakker or Laurent Hendrick - bass trombone
Frank Vaganée - alto & soprano saxophone, leader
Dieter Limbourg - alto saxophone, clarinet
Kurt Van Kerck - tenor & soprano saxophone
Bart Defoort - tenor saxophone
Bo Van der Werf - baritone saxophone
Christoph Erbstoesser - piano
Nicolas Thys - double bass
Arnoud Gerritse - drums

Bert Joris - conductor in Warp 9 and Alone at last, producer
Michel Herr - conductor in Celebration suite
Erwin Vann - conductor in Tarantulas

Recorded at VRT studio Toots, Brussels. Released in 1999. CD (Werf 018).

On this album, Michel Herr did the conducting of his own piece, titled "Celebration suite", written on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Lundis d'Hortense, the Belgian association of jazz musicians.