The RIAS Big Band Berlin

The RIAS Big Band Berlin: Bach Brandt New

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2002

Who’d have suspected that Johann Sebastian Bach, who died more than 250 years ago, would be making such a strong comback in the twenty­first century, and in a Jazz context, no less? But here we have the venerated maestro, resurrected first in Bach 2000, an excellent album by David Matthews and the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, and now in Bach Brandt New, in which Germany’s world­class RIAS Big Band performs marvelous new arrangements of half a dozen Bach themes by the ...