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CD A Night In Tunisia Suite
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Almost every jazz fan should know Dizzy Gillespie's famous standard A Night In Tunisia. There are countless versions available, including big band arrangements such as the one by Peter Herbolzheimer. How can one still be surprised?
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Jazz pianist and arranger Marcus Sukiennik chooses an independent approach to the arrangement of the well-known jazz standard. It is a bow to classical compositional art and the improvisational art of jazz, at the same time a tribute to Dizzy Gillespie. Already the first note of this CD is an exclamation mark and causes a question mark - in the listener's mind. And the unexpected occurs: space and time for new territory.
The 7 variations and the small interludes captivate through diversity in instrumentation and conception. Composed solo piano passages, big band passages in the orchestral sound, intimate wood or wood and brass passages, brutal swinging tutti.
Especially worth mentioning are the convincing soloists e.g. Bernd Lechtenfeld (trb), George Tjong-Ayong (ts) and Thomas Gebhard (ss), outstanding Peter Heidl (flute). Marcus Sukiennik (piano) and his Projekt Big Band with André Nendza (bass), Hendrik Soll (drums), Michael Schuh (trumpet) were lucky: Georg Ruby and Martin Classen conducted. Released 2000 by JHM-Vertrieb, Label Jazzhausmusik
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Fono Forum issue 12/2000 (page 82)
The core of "Tunisia"
The original is one of the best-known classics of modern jazz, but here it takes a while before you hear it clearly. The variations and little interludes in which pianist and arranger Marcus Sukiennik encircles Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night In Tunisia" come from far away and gradually approach the "core". The result is a stimulating example of ambitious orchestral work in jazz today, full of surprises in compositional technique, arrangement, instrumentation and sonic awareness. And, moreover, exciting to listen to.
WDR 5
Bernd Hoffmann in the broadcast Jazz'n & World Trends on 24.8.2000
Die 6. Variation “A Night In Tunesia Suite”. Diese farbige Variationenkette über Dizzy Gillespies wohl bekanntester Komposition schrieb der in Köln lebende Pianist und Arrangeur Marcus Sukiennik. Die CD ist aktuell beim Kölner Jazz Haus Vertieb erhältlich. Mir gefällt die Idee der Variationen besonders gut, da der junge Pianist sehr geschickt die verschiedenen Klangfarben in den einzelnen Suitensätzen thematisiert. Seine Hinweise wie Verschleierung, Erstarrung und Befreiung, Atem oder wie hier das Fest, öffnen die Hörerwartung gegenüber diesem sattsam bekannten Motiv. Diese 7 Variationen sind ein gelungenes Erstlingswerk.
JAZZPODIUM 04/2001 (page 66)
New releases from Jazz am Rhein - Author: Hans-Jürgen von Osterhausen
... Another reference for a great of jazz history is provided by another impressive pianist from the Rhineland, Marcus Sukiennik, with his "A Night In Tunisia Suite" to the address of Dizzy Gillespie. Seven variations with some procedural titles like alignment, run-up or transition create an impressionistic picture of this unique title, which has been played by so many greats of jazz - just think of Miles Davis' recordings from the fifties or those of Art Blakey's Jazzmessengers - of appropriate urgency. A large band of altogether 35 musicians, of which of course only just under half are used at any one time, accompany Sukiennik as he cautiously approaches the theme and then tests it out in various directions: a small masterpiece of large-scale orchestral jazz of the present day.
Bill Dobbins (at the time of publication leader of the WDR Big Band)
Marcus Sukiennik has written an interesting and colorful series of variations which are based on the Dizzy Gillespie classic, “A Night In Tunisia”. The band which he has assembled for this recording delivers a first class performance, and there are convincing solo contributions as well. I enjoyed hearing this music, and I am sure that you will, too.
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