Hard Rubber Orchestra - Music of King Crimson

[Canard]

An off the wall big band from Vancouver, B.C.

 

[Bernie]

That's quite outstanding ; gives King Crimson's music some extra dimension. Makes aware of it's great value even more...There are some nice add-ups through arrangements, with some chords embellishments I really like...Thanks for sharing Canard...It's great to see such things can exist, and that good people can get support to do it, and see people come and listen ; in France I once saw a pseudo-jazz (national) orchestra do an all Led Zep's music concert, they took away all the lyrics and singing, drowned out most many melodies, only leaving weird arrangements (often even non-aesthetic !?) and it sucked, but here I like what they did...I didn't see any credit given to original composer(s) or writer(s) though (??).

 

[Canard]

.I didn't see any credit given to original composer(s) or writer(s) though (??).

It's there if you click through to Youtube and click "Show More."



Their Website:

John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra

The virtual home of Vancouver's Godzilla of jazz orchestras

www.hardrubber.com

A friend wants me to go to Vancouver to see them doing another King Crimson show:

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I almost saw them a few years back at a small venue in Vancouver, Iron Works, an old iron foundry converted to a performance space. It is generally a venue for more offbeat things. I had gone with a different friend to see a series of back to back concerts during the Vancouver Jazz Festival, and the friend, although adventurous and willing to listen to new things, was somewhat conservative in his tastes, and he burned out with a major overdose of "outside," so we left before the sold-out Hard Rubber Orchestra show.

I gave our HRO tickets away to some young people who looked like impoverished music students - they had been hanging around outside, waiting to see if they could score tickets from someone - they were extremely pleased to get the tickets for free.

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