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Meg Okura’s Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble

By admin ⋅ July 18, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Meg Okura has just released a phenomenal new album with the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble that showcases her stunning compositional skills that integrate stylistic elements from multiple genres of music within individual arrangements.

Okura’s virtuoso violin playing gracefully fuses lexicons from different styles of music into her own unique lyrical signature sound that incorporates influences such as disciplined structure, savvy refinement, and polished precision from Viennese era classical, vivid impressionism, dramatic expressionism, and moving emotional projection from Romantic era classical, 20th century tonality, harmonization, meters, rhythms, and swing, as well as other elements from contemporary jazz and popular music spanning from Joe Venuti to Gershwin to Coltrane and beyond.

The intricate arrangements are mesmerizing; The unorthodox and unprecedented changes are breathtaking; The seamless fluidity within the diverse arrangements is beguiling; Okura’s firm grasp on and absorption of genres, styles, and characteristics of epochs from the musical continuum into her exquisite musical form is nothing short of amazing! The vision is radical but the flawless execution and inspired delivery make it seem natural. If you have broad musical experience and are not content to be confined to a single genre or style of music, you are going to fall flat on your back when you hear this.

Meg Okura defies convention by breaking through all boundaries with her revolutionary vision that is redefining our understanding of and perspective on modern music. Okura’s music is so innovative that it is surreal to experience it. The music is refined, sophisticated, emotional, progressive and hip all at the same time. Check out Meg Okura.

This is real world fusion!!! This is the future of instrumental music.

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