OREGON (USA)

Secondary school and university students as well as senior citizens are entitled to purchase one advance ticket (not on the day of the event) per event at a 20 % discount, only at Kino Šiška box office. A limited amount of discount tickets available!

Oregon

RALPH TOWNER - Guitar / Piano
PAUL McCANDLESS - Woodwinds
GLEN MOORE - Acoustic Bass, Piano
MARK WALKER - Drums / Percussion





Without a doubt OREGON is one of the finest groups ever to paint a musical landscape of such global proportions. For over three decades, OREGON has inspired audiences in renowned concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Berlin Philharmonic Hall and Vienna’s Mozartsaal; in international jazz clubs and at major festivals on tour throughout every continent.

Young musicians RALPH TOWNER and GLEN MOORE met COLLIN WALCOTT at a recording session in New York in 1969. When the three joined the Paul Winter Consort for a 50-concert U.S. tour, they formed an alliance with its oboist, PAUL McCANDLESS. The early development of OREGON took root when the four began investigating new musical possibilities after getting a taste of musical improvisation on tour with the Consort. Winter’s group introduced them to the concept of performing with uncommon combinations of instruments in an eclectic variety of musical styles. Incorporating these elements, OREGON emerged with a unique synthesis of European classical instrumentation, American jazz harmony, and world music influences from around the globe.
MUSIC OF ANOTHER PRESENT ERA was OREGON’S first LP release on Vanguard in 1972, introducing the quartet to its American audience.

Through their association with ECM, they developed a European following with tours that brought them recognition in the growing international community. Six years and nine albums later, OREGON moved to Elektra/Asylum Records. Its first release on that label, OUT OF THE WOODS, reached a decidedly wider audience and was included in the 101 Best Jazz Albums list. They were enjoying immense popularity when in November 1984, Walcott died in an auto accident in the former East Germany, leaving the ECM album CROSSING as his final document. Over the next five years, percussionist Trilok Gurtu played on three albums with the band. Upon his departure the three original members continued their creative development as a trio. For the 1996 Intuition recording NORTHWEST PASSAGE, the group incorporated drummer MARK WALKER on the Indie Award winning record. He soon after became their newest member. In June 1999 the band traveled to Moscow to record the double CD OREGON IN MOSCOW for Intuition. This project is the debut recording of the group’s orchestral repertoire. Developing since the Winter Consort days, this prodigious body of work had been performed with the St. Paul, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Stavanger, Freiburg, and Stuttgart Opera Orchestras, but never documented. OREGON IN MOSCOW features the band members as composers, orchestrators, and soloists in collaboration with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. With this latest CD garnering four GRAMMY nominations, the veteran force that is OREGON is poised to inspire a new generation of music fans.