Miles Davis Symphónico: Kind of Blue

In September 2022, William Goodchild headed out to Portugal to work with the seventy musicians of the Orquestra de Jazz de Espinho and Orquestra Clássica de Espinho.

Five days of rehearsals led to two capacity performances at the stunning Auditório de Espinho Academia, Portugal.

The centrepiece of each concert was composer/ arranger Guy Barker’s Miles Davis Symphónico: Kind of Blue - an arrangement for big band and symphony orchestra of Miles Davis’s seminal album. Also in the programme was William’s own jazz suite, More Four, and two further arrangements by Guy Barker: Impulse Medley featuring tunes by John Coltrane/ Olivier Nelson/ McCoy Tyner and Charles Mingus; and Miles’s Nefertiti.

William Goodchild: “I shall never forget the intensity and commitment of the performances on both nights. This is how it is done. Thank you for inviting me to work with you.”

OCE - Orquestra Clássica de Espinho

6a Feira dia 30 de Setembro
 Sábado dia 1 de Outubro

 Auditório de Espinho
 

William Goodchild – Direção Musical

 Programa:
 Kind Of Blue – Miles Davis/Bill Evans; Arr e Orch: Guy Barker
 So what/All Blues/Blue in Green/Freddie Freeloader/Flamenco Sketches
 Nefertiti – Wayne Shorter , arr Guy Barker
 Impulse Medley – John Coltrane/ Olivier Nelson/McCoy Tyner/Charles Mingus; Orch: Guy Barker

More Four – William Goodchild

Violinos I

Catarina Resende

Fabiana Fernandes

Raquel Santos

Valéria Gomez

Gonçalo Melo

Matilde Margalho

Margarida Campos

Pedro Carvalho

Francisca Azevedo
 

Violinos II

Ana Rita Santos

Joana Machado

Vitor Damião

Carolina Coelho

Francisco Chicória

António Ramos

Inês Marques
  Inês Cunha

Guilherme Ferreira

 Violas

Trevor Mctait

Bárbara Ferreira

Rita Barreto

Rita Mendes

Rita Carreiras

João Santos

Violoncelos

Irene Alvar

Ana Sofia Leão

Diogo Santos

Laura Silva
 Joana Santos

Alice Martins
 

Contrabaixos

Nelson Fernandes

Joana Vaz Bárbara

Gaspar Pedro Barbosa
 

Flautas

Ana Maria

Leonardo Coelho

Luísa Gil

Oboés

Pedro Ferreira

Ema Silva

Clarinetes

Francisca Guedes

Ana Andrade

Gabriela Pinto

Fagote

Bruna Carvalho

Maria João Ferreira

Saxofone
 Rafael Gomes

Raquel Lima

Pedro Matos

Afonso Clemêncio

Bernal Muíños
 

Trompas
 Mariana Santos

Diogo Pinto
 Diogo Bernardino

Francisco Pereira

Paulo Migueis

Trompetes
 Luís Cunha
 Hugo Silva
 Vasco Silva
 Rodrigo Cunha

Trombones
 Afonso Silva
 Ana Santos
 Rui Bandeira
 

Tuba
 Romeu Medeiros

Tímpanos
 Manuel Dias
 Pedro Simões
 

Percussão

Alexandre Andrade

Gonçalo Brandão

Hugo Santos

Ricardo Silva
 

Vibrafone
 Diogo Azevedo

João Rosa
 

Harpa

Maria Sá Silva

Maria Eduarda

Guitarra

AP Neves

Baixo

Diogo Dinis

Piano

José Diogo

Bateria

João Martins