Ines Velasco, a Mexican born, Brooklyn based drummer, arranger, and composer is collaborating with award-winning Mexican poet Jorge Esquinca to bring the album, A Flash of Cobalt Blue to life.
—Juliette Richey
Imagine an album inspired by a voyage that navigates the Pacific coast of Mexico and wanders through the streets of Paris, blending memory with imagination, sorrow with affection. Ines Velasco, a Mexican born, Brooklyn based drummer, arranger, and composer is collaborating with award-winning Mexican poet Jorge Esquinca to bring the album, A Flash of Cobalt Blue to life.
Ines is recording her first full length big band album as a leader with a 17-piece band of Brooklyn-based musicians (including M. Alex Ramírez, Sam Blakeslee, John Lowery, Bobby Spellman and JK Kim), and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help cover the recording costs of this large project. It will include excerpts of Esquinca’s spoken word as part of the composition.
The Kickstarter campaign ends on March 9, please consider donating to make this project a reality. Click here for the campaign and for more information on the project.
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Ms. Velasco’s recent work includes compositions for the National Jazz Orchestra of México, string arrangements for the NY Philharmonic’s Bandwagon series with vocalist Juana Luna, as well as Alina Engirbayan’s CD We Are (GroundUP, 2018), orchestration/transcription work including Avenged Sevenfold’s last studio album Life Is But a Dream (Warner, 2023), and for Snarky Puppy/Metropole Orkest’s performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2018. She was chosen to participate in the 2014 Metropole Orkest’s Arranger’s Workshop, under the tutelage of Vince Mendoza, where she arranged for jazz vocalist Gregory Porter.
She released her first EP Three Stories in December of 2022, and it was featured in JAZZIZ Magazine Summer Edition’s Discovery Sampler Big Sounds.
Ines is recording her first full length big band album as a leader with a 17-piece band of Brooklyn-based musicians (including M. Alex Ramírez, Sam Blakeslee, John Lowery, Bobby Spellman and JK Kim), and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help cover the recording costs of this large project. It will include excerpts of Esquinca’s spoken word as part of the composition.
The Kickstarter campaign ends on March 9, please consider donating to make this project a reality. Click here for the campaign and for more information on the project.
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About Ines Velasco
Inés Velasco is a Brooklyn based composer, arranger and drummer born in Guadalajara, México. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music with a dual degree in Jazz Composition and Performance.Ms. Velasco’s recent work includes compositions for the National Jazz Orchestra of México, string arrangements for the NY Philharmonic’s Bandwagon series with vocalist Juana Luna, as well as Alina Engirbayan’s CD We Are (GroundUP, 2018), orchestration/transcription work including Avenged Sevenfold’s last studio album Life Is But a Dream (Warner, 2023), and for Snarky Puppy/Metropole Orkest’s performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2018. She was chosen to participate in the 2014 Metropole Orkest’s Arranger’s Workshop, under the tutelage of Vince Mendoza, where she arranged for jazz vocalist Gregory Porter.
She released her first EP Three Stories in December of 2022, and it was featured in JAZZIZ Magazine Summer Edition’s Discovery Sampler Big Sounds.
