Artist: Metropolitan Jazz Octet
Album: The Bowie Project
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 01:04:50
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 753 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – Slow Burn (06:40)
1-2. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – 5:15 The Angels Have Gone (07:31)
1-3. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – Changes (05:44)
1-4. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – Letter to Hermione (05:31)
1-5. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – Space Oddity (05:10)
1-6. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – Let’s Dance (06:15)
1-7. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – Stay (05:01)
1-8. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – Quicksand (05:25)
1-9. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – I Would Be Your Slave (05:32)
1-10. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – Conversation Piece (05:09)
1-11. Metropolitan Jazz Octet – Life on Mars? (06:49)

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Chicago’s Metropolitan Jazz Octet partners with the acclaimed vocalist Paul Marinaro to create an inspired tribute to the durability and pure magic of David Bowie’s songwriting legacy. Reinterpreting without replicating, due in no small part to Marinaro’s riveting vocals paired with creative arrangements, the octet palette reveals transparency and intimacy, coaxing nuanced colors more indicative of a larger orchestra, laying out an inventive complement to Bowie’s lyrics. The MJO was originally founded in the ’50s by saxophonist/arranger Tom Hilliard and documented first in 1959’s The Legend of Bix on Argo Records. Its re-awakening in 2014 by Hilliard’s former student, Jim Gailloreto, extends the rich legacy of Hilliard’s library of compositions and devotion to this elegant chamber ensemble.