Peter Marks
Peter Marks is a French horn player and producer whose passion for melody shaped a Melbourne studio project of jazz and classical musicians in arrangements from the Great American Songbook and related standards.
As creator of Seasons of Love (MD 3365) he chose the programme and produced the sessions, also playing French horn on several tracks. The album joins a jazz trio, string orchestra, and featured soloists in rich arrangements of show songs and standards, and was launched at the Melbourne Recital Centre in July 2013.
He is also thanked on The Art of Melody (MD 3425).
Peter Marks appears on
Seasons of Love
A jazz trio, string orchestra and guest soloists join vocalists Gian Slater and Eddie Perfect. Graeme Lyall’s rich arrangements refresh Great American Songbook standards and other stage and screen favourites.
Producer
Other credits
Crossing Paths
Ensemble Liaison and the Tony Gould Trio take turns across the programme: each piece is heard first in a scored reading, then in an improvised jazz response that opens the same melodic and harmonic material to fresh colour.
The Art of Melody
Jazz legends Tony Gould (piano) and Graeme Lyall (saxophone) offer superb readings of well-known standards, joined by Ben Robertson on double bass and Joe Batrouney on drums.