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Kenton: Concerts in Miniature

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 15, 2015

In early 1952, money was tight for Stan Kenton. The musical experiments of his massive 39-piece Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra in 1950 had taken a toll on his wallet. What's more, the music didn't go over well with audiences, who found the classically influenced arrangements largely a bore. Kenton reconfigured his band in early 1952 and commissioned arrangements by Shorty Rogers, Gerry Mulligan, Bill Holman and others. But he needed to get the word out. The NBC radio network ...
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Bassist/Composer Alexis Cuadrado To Premiére Jazz Miniatures For Double Quartet, A Residency Commission From The Jazz Gallery

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
May 16, 2012

Bassist/Composer Alexis Cuadrado to premiére Jazz Miniatures for Double Quartet A Residency Commission from The Jazz Gallery Performances at the Jazz Gallery Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd, 2012 Located at 290 Hudson Street, NYC Featuring: Ben Wendel (saxophones and bassoon), Jason Rigby (saxophones, flutes and clarinets), Satoshi Takeishi (drums and percussion), Sara Caswell (violin), Antonia Nelson (violin), Lois Martin (viola), Jody Redhage (cello) and Alexis Cuadrado - bass With his new work, Jazz Miniatures ...
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Erik Friedlander - Fifty: 50 Miniatures for Improvising Quintet (2010)

Source: Something Else!
September 19, 2010

By Pico Cello virtuoso Erik Friedlander must have found a second wind at 50 years old because yesterday he released his second album of all new material as many months. The album, incidentally, is called Fifty: 50 Miniatures For Improvising Quintet and in Friedlander's typically atypical fashion, it introduces a concept he hadn't tried on any album he has recorded before. Friedlander was commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2008 to compose a music collection of pieces ...
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Tomas Fujiwara Exploring the Drums' Potential as an Orchestra in Miniature

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2010

The drummer Tomas Fujiwara works with rhythm as a pliable substance, solid but ever shifting.

Over the last five years he has established a busy profile on the experimental end of the jazz spectrum, where such perspective is vital; before that he was a cast member of “Stomp," the polymorphously percussive Off Broadway show. His style is forward-driving but rarely blunt or aggressive, and never random. He has a way of spreading out the center of a pulse while setting ...
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Sam Sadigursky's Words Project III: Miniatures NY Debut Friday Jan. 29th at Galapagos Art Space (Dumbo, Brooklyn)

Source: Fully Altered Media
January 23, 2010

Sam Sadigurskys Words Project III: Miniatures NY Debut Friday Jan. 29th at Galapagos Art Space (DUMBO, Brooklyn)

The highly anticipated New York debut of Sam Sadigurskys Words Project III: Miniatures, the NY-based saxophonist and composers third installment in the critically acclaimed Words Project series on New Amsterdam Records, will take place Friday January 29th at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO (16 Main St. at the corner of Water St and Main St. Brooklyn, NY 11201) as part of New Amsterdams ARCHIPELAGO Series. These ...
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Paper Moon Guitar Duo releases new album "Miniatures"

Source: All About Jazz
June 27, 2006

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