移動肖像 Moving Portraits from Twisting Roots by TPO Big Band

Moving Portraits was written about two years after I bought a one-way plane across the Pacific Ocean and was thinking that I had come to a point in my life when I had two homes, one on the beautiful island of Taiwan and one at the divide of the rugged mountains and majestic plains of Colorado. I missed my family and thought of my sister Liz looking at family photographs, portraits that always came alive in her curious explorations of our family history.
After I had recorded the song on my 2020 solo album “Don’t Get Too Comfortable” and also joined TPO, I sent a friendly message to Alan Ferber wondering if he would be interested in arranging any of the songs on the album for TPO. He listened to the album and came back to me a bit later, very graciously saying that it was hard to choose but that he felt Moving Portraits would translate particularly well to big band. In the end the song transformed under Alan’s hand to become an adventure of a kind I had never imagined, let alone with the thought of having the honor of playing it in a large ensemble of such wonderful musicians and people. What began as an expression of love and missing family turned into a vehicle for expression of togetherness.
-Written by Matthew Fullen

還記得那年我買了單程機票，隻身飛越太平洋，來到在這片我稱之為家的土地上。自此之後，我的生命中有兩個家 － 美麗的島嶼臺灣以及被山巒所環抱的科羅拉多。我非常想念在美國的家人，特別是姊姊Liz看著家庭相簿的畫面，總是栩栩如生的印在我腦中。後來這首歌收錄在2020年我的首張創作爵士專輯 “Don’t Get Too Comfortable” 之中。
加入了TPO樂團之後，我寫了一封訊息給Alan Ferber，請他聆聽專輯，好奇他是否有興趣將其中一首作品改編給大樂團。Alan回覆說他很喜歡《移動肖像》，且是非常適合用大樂團的作品。對我來說，當初請Alan重新編曲是抱著姑且一試的心態，但沒想到Alan將這首曲子帶到一個我從沒想像過的境界。我非常榮幸能和許多優秀的音樂家一起演奏，給予音樂許多不同的樣貌，而這現在首歌不只表達了對於家人的愛和思念更昇華成讓大家凝聚在一起的力量。

Created in May 2020 during the World COVID Pandemic, TPO is an international group of professional musicians based in Taipei that brings the spirit and sound of vintage American jazz into 21st century Taipei.

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