The King’s Brass
Released in 2018
DownBeat Four-Stars Review
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ntkrNfisTOGkBJnO_rx08z9ZTzPE4jaYc
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4OG6Lk0N2yHt8zThveB959?si=7j5l4ytBTiit7k-iGsU2mA
About:
Tim Zimmerman and the King’s Brass provide innovative worship for young and old alike through the “best in sacred brass music.” By teaming together, these Christian professionals from around the USA perform their original arrangements as heard on their eight recordings. For more than twenty years, The King’s Brass have performed over one hundred concerts each season with three trumpets, three trombones, a tuba, keyboards, and percussion. Playing a wide variety of music from Gabrieli to hymn classics, from Händel to jazz spirituals, from Christmas carols to patriotic marches, The King’s Brass uses all corners of the concert hall to lift hearts and spirits in praise.
Each year if possible, The King’s Brass participates in a missions venture. In the summer of 2000, the group went to Europe to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Greater Europe Mission, the missionary organization of which Tim Zimmerman’s parents were members for twenty-six years. In the fall 2002, The King’s Brass was invited by the Christian shortwave radio station, HCJB, in Quito, Ecuador, to participate in a local celebration that is held every year. Quito Day is the anniversary of the founding of Quito, which is the oldest city in the world. As part of the celebration there, concerts are held which offer a special blend of Christian music with the message of hope and salvation, and Quito music which inspires admiration and celebration for this wonderful ancient city.
Track Listing:
1. Fanfare from La Peril (Paul Dukas) 01:54
2. Good Christian Men, Rejoice (Christmas Traditional) 03:13
Nutcracker
3. Dance of the Sugar Plums (Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky) 03:45
4. What Child Is This? (Christmas Traditional) 04:13
5. The Little Drummer Boy (Katherine K. Davis) 04:57
6. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Johnny Marks) 03:51
7. Ding Dong Merrily on High (Christmas Traditional) 03:31
8. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (Felix Mendelssohn) 04:56
9. Carol of The Bells (Mykola Leontovych) 03:29
10. Frosty the Snowman (Steve Nelson) 04:27
11. Christmas Time Is Here (Vince Guaraldi) 04:43
12. Joy to the World! (George Frederick Handel) 03:06
Messiah
13. And the Glory (George Frederick Handel) 03:10
14. O Come, O come, Emmanuel (Christmas Traditional) 04:33
15. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Christmas Traditional) 04:06
16. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Jean Baptiste Calkin) 03:18
L’Arlesienne, No. 2
17. Farandole – The March of the Kings (Georges Bizet) 03:52
Personnel:
The King’s Brass
Trumpets:
Gregory Alley; Matt Dueppen; Daniel Lewis; Brian Shook; Jason Webb; Tim Zimmerman (piccolo trumpet solo)
Trombones:
Justin Brown; Alan Carr (bass trombone); David Gravesen; Eric Henson (bass trombone); Casey Klint; Daniel Morris (bass trombone); Daniel Morrison (bass trombone); Andrew Reich; Jihye Shim; Jonah Trout (bass trombone); Michael Wharton; Drew Wolgemuth
Tuba:
Peter Begina; Paul Carlson; Dan Davis; Jared Fletcher; John Leibensperger; Corey Rom
Piano / Organ:
Laura Goepper Allnutt; Sunghwan Kim; Michelle Fevig Kuhl (Piano Solo); Lisa Varner Nelson; Rachel KyeJungPark
Drums & Percussion:
Jim Huff; Stephen Lynerd (Vibraphone Solo); Ronny Morrell; Tim Perry; Brandon Wood
Recorded at Big3Studios, St. Petersburg FL, Gaither Studios, Alexandria IN, Lone Pine Studios, Orlando, FL
Review:
With personnel drawn from all over the United States, The King’s Brass—three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, keyboards and percussion, plus guests, including organist Samuel Metzger—brings stately poise to the jazz-classical-pop holiday spirit displayed on Christmas Joy. Trumpeter/band/leader Tim Zimmerman and company mine spirituality in age-old carols and fun in secular tunes. The band gives dramatic animation to pleasing arrangements of Bizet’s “Farandole—The March Of The Kings” and Paul Dukas’ “Fanfare,” from his ballet La Péri.
Frank-John Hadley (DownBeat)
