Theatre

About Theatre

Theatre is an album by George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band '83 recorded in July 1983 and released on ECM the following year.

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Theatre is an album by George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band '83 recorded in July 1983 and released on ECM the following year.

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Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars stating "the music overall is for selective tastes and it never really seems to flow, making it of limited interest."

Track listing

All compositions by George Gruntz except as indicated

"El Chancho" (Dino Saluzzi) - 15:18

"In the Tradition of Switzerland" - 9:21

"No One Can Explain It" - 6:27

"The Holy Grail of Jazz and Joy" - 25:20

Personnel

George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band '83

George Gruntz – keyboards

Marcus Belgrave – trumpet

Tom Harrell – trumpet, flugelhorn

Palle Mikkelborg – trumpet

Bill Pusey – trumpet, flugelhorn

Julian Priester – trombone

Dave Bargeron – trombone, euphonium

Dave Taylor – bass trombone

Peter Gordon – French horn

Tom Varner – French horn

Howard Johnson – tuba, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone

Charlie Mariano – alto and soprano saxophones, flute

Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky – alto and soprano saxophones, clarinet

Seppo Paakkunainen – tenor saxophone, flute

Dino Saluzzi – bandoneon

Mark Egan – bass guitar

Bob Moses – drums

Sheila Jordan – vocals

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Notable quotes

“What we call theatre doesn’t actually happen on the stage. It happens in the mind of the audience.”
— Ben Abbott, commentary on Backward (2025)
“If you have a message, call western union.”
— The earliest known print attribution is to Moss Hart in Van Wert (Ohio) Times Bulletin (26 August 1954) as cited in Fred Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006). Widely attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, but denied by his biographer, A. Scott Berg, in Goldwyn: A Biography (1998).
“we have to invent new images and ways of power. So far the world thinks of power as violence, that power comes from a gun. We must create a new kind of drama in which there is drama, but it's nonviolent. And this has barely been thought of.”
— 1990 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston edited by Paul Skenazy and Tera Martin (1998)
“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.”
— Ralph Richardson, reported in Ashton Applewhite; Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham (2003). And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker. Macmillan, p. 283. .
“A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.”
— August Strindberg, reported in Colin Jarman (1993). The Book of Poisonous Quotes. McGraw-Hill Professional, p. 103. .
“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”
— Quoted in "Tennessee Williams" in Profiles (1990) by Kenneth Tynan (first published as a magazine article in February 1956)

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