1975 Archive (2006)

Summit Records' two-CD set, Eastman Brass Quintet 1975 Archive, features the work of a composer, arranger, and horn player whose name will be well known to anyone having formal training in brass instruments at the academic level, Verne Reynolds. Reynolds' Centones -- suites of older pieces arranged for standard brass groups -- horn method and several of his original compositions are used, and played, by university-based student groups and brass players all the time, even if they are not necessarily well known outside of ... Read More

Summit Records' two-CD set, Eastman Brass Quintet 1975 Archive, features the work of a composer, arranger, and horn player whose name will be well known to anyone having formal training in brass instruments at the academic level, Verne Reynolds. Reynolds' Centones -- suites of older pieces arranged for standard brass groups -- horn method and several of his original compositions are used, and played, by university-based student groups and brass players all the time, even if they are not necessarily well known outside of teaching. Some of the pieces on Eastman Brass Quintet 1975 Archive have been recorded and released before, but never by the group for which they were written, the Eastman Brass Quintet. Founded by Reynolds in 1962, by the 1970s the Eastman Brass Quintet was one of the most highly acclaimed collegiate chamber brass groups in the world, and it still exsited in 2009 as Eastman Brass, as it is no longer exclusively a quintet, per se. These recordings appear to be studio-made efforts that... Read Less