Tenacity

"What's perhaps most remarkable about Tenacity is how, over the space of just five days' rehearsal, Bates managed to bring Belovèd together with Norrbotten, Slater, Herskedal and Pesonen, building a repertoire that is irrefutably some of the most challenging music the Swedish big band had ever played. And yet, recorded in the days following its June 1, 2013 live premiere, it feels as if this collaboration had been ongoing for years".

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"Bates has been cooking up fascinating, irreverent and virtuosic big-band music since his work with Loose Tubes in the '80s, and on Tenacity, he creates a wild but deeply musical tapestry ... One of the ever-tenacious bandleader's finest works to date".

"Loose Tubes pianist Bates celebrates 40 musician's years with a deeply personal Charles Parker tribute. That doesn't stop him and partners Petter Eldh and Peter Bruun taking extreme license with the source material. Norrbotten's ornate big band skills shine on 12-minute original "The Study Of Touch", full of Bates's signature quirkiness".

"The latest opus by ex-Loose Tubes multi-instrumentalist and composer Django Bates, who together with his trio Beloved and Sweden's 14-piece Norrbotten Big Band blend striking original compositions with several orchestrated Charlie Parker numbers. Among the highlights is a stunning re-imagination of Parker's Donna Lee".