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Brett Gold

Brett Gold

Born: August 14, 1956

Brett Gold has pursued an unusual path to his first big band recording with The Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra, Dreaming Big, released on GoldFox Records and available June 16, 2017, on CD Baby, Amazon and iTunes.   Born in 1956 and raised in Pikesville, MD, a suburb of Baltimore, Brett began studying trombone in elementary school, and quickly reached a level of proficiency that enabled him to play with a hand-selected nationwide student orchestra at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center.  But his life changed forever when he discovered the music of Charlie Parker and the world of jazz. Taking the advice of his trombone teacher, who suggested to Brett that if there was anything else he could possibly do in life he should not become a musician, Brett finished high school a year early and attended the University of Rochester as a double major in History and Film Studies, graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa

Brett Gold

Dreaming Big

By Brett Gold

Label: GoldFox Records
Released: 2017

Dreaming Big

By Brett Gold

Label: GoldFox Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Pumpkinhead, P.I.; Stella’s Waltz; Dream Moon; Al-Andalus; Lullaby for Lilly; Exit, Pursued by a Bear (Slow Drag Blues); Infinity Row; Theme from an Unfinished Film; That Latin Tinge; Monkfish; Nakba.

The Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra: Dreaming Big

by Jack Bowers
June 12, 2017

What's that you say? A New York-based Jazz Orchestra as admirable as this one whose recording debut was delayed for more than twenty-five years? There ought to be a law! Well, in this case it wasn't the law but a lawyer who sidetracked the orchestra's debut for so many years. His name is Brett Gold, and ...

The Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra Debuts With "Dreaming Big," Due June 16

May 7, 2017

The June 16th release of Dreaming Big (GoldFox Records), which marks the recording debut of the Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra and features the compositions of Brett Gold, illuminates a most intriguing jazz odyssey. A star trombonist in high school in his native Baltimore, Gold was steered away from a music career by his parents ...