The UNLV Wind Orchestra's Klavier release Concerto for Marienthal is so titled because the featured work is Michael Kamen's Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (1998), initially composed for David Sanborn, as performed by jazz saxophonist Eric Marienthal, best known for his work as a solo jazz artist and as a member of the Rippingtons, Chick Corea's Elektric Band, and other jazz groups. Marienthal -- like Kamen once did -- maintains a strong connection to both the practical and formal ends of music, publishing three books ...
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The UNLV Wind Orchestra's Klavier release Concerto for Marienthal is so titled because the featured work is Michael Kamen's Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (1998), initially composed for David Sanborn, as performed by jazz saxophonist Eric Marienthal, best known for his work as a solo jazz artist and as a member of the Rippingtons, Chick Corea's Elektric Band, and other jazz groups. Marienthal -- like Kamen once did -- maintains a strong connection to both the practical and formal ends of music, publishing three books on saxophone technique, producing teaching videos, coaching high school and college wind players, and booking the occasional "straight" concert. Kamen's concerto is a generally outstanding sax concerto that has two very strong, serious, and richly scored movements and a third that is less so owing to its TV theme-like character. Marienthal performs it winningly and with a little more roughness of tone than would Sanborn; at times it's a little like Cannonball Adderley stepping in to...
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