Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra

Mists: The Music of Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra
Studio album by Various artists Jack Cooper
Released	22 August 2014
Recorded	4 and 6 of April 2014
Studio	Systems Two, Brooklyn New York Lighthouse Recording, Staten Island New York
Genre	Jazz Big band instrumental
Length	55:59
Label	Planet Arts
Producer	Thomas Bellino (exec. prod.) Luis Bonilla (main prod. for recording session, contractor, mix down) Douglas Purviance (assoc. prod.)
Jack Cooper chronology
The Chamber Wind Music of Jack Cooper (2010) Mists: The Music of Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra (2014) Time Within Itself (2015)
Planet Arts Recordings 101420

Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra is a jazz album produced by Planet Arts Recordings and released in August 2014.^[1] The recording is centered on Charles Ives' art song arranged for 17-piece jazz orchestra by composer Jack Cooper; this is a Third stream approach to jazz made more widely known by earlier band leaders and composers such as Paul Whiteman, Gunther Schuller, George Russell and Don Sebesky. The album is archived in both the United States Library of Congress and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a historically significant sound recording.^[2][3]

Noted Ives scholar Gayle Magee writes,"These recordings preserve the essence of (Ives) classics...while offering a fresh, modern reinterpretation for Ives fans and jazz enthusiasts alike."^[4] The album was named as one of the Top 10 Jazz CDs for 2014 in the Chicago Tribune by music critic Howard Reich and also peaked at #8 in radio airplay in the Roots Music Report for top albums in Canada for October 26, 2014.^[5] Reich comments about the CD, "Can the gnarly, rhythmically complex, densely scored works of Ives be transformed (sic)? ...arranger Cooper accomplishes it brilliantly, applying a jazz aesthetic to Ives classics..."^[5]