This is an interesting jazz version of
Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. The great clarinetist
Eddie Daniels performs with
the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (whose personnel and instrumentation is unidentified) plus pianist
Alan Broadbent, bassist
Dave Carpenter, and drummer
Peter Erskine. The arrangements by
Jorge Calandrelli put each of the seasons in three movements, alternating between straight classical interpretations and jazz improvising off of the melodies.
Calandrelli also contributed a closing "The Fifth Season."
Daniels plays brilliantly throughout, but the music comes across as a bit trivial, alternating between two very different idioms and rarely trying to mix them together. Better to get
Eddie Daniels' Breakthrough album (which is a better third stream effort) instead. ~ Scott Yanow