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The recipient of five individual GRAMMY nominations as well as a prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, Chuck Owen’s compositions have been performed throughout the world; by the Netherlands’ Metropole Orch., WDR Big Band, Brussels Jazz Orch., Aarhus Big Band, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orch., Tonight Show Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, and numerous others.

However, since 1995, Owen’s primary creative outlet has been his own 19-piece Jazz Surge. Serving as conductor as well as primary composer/arranger, he has produced each of the Surge’s 7 highly feted CDs. Whispers On the Wind, released in 2017, was recognized with 4 GRAMMY Nominations (including for best composition) while also named #1 Big Band Album in the annual Jazz Station Awards. River Runs (2013), a stunning 5-movement genre-bending orchestral/big band hybrid and The Comet’s Tail (2009) also received GRAMMY nominations.

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Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge: The Comet's Tail

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 27, 2010

3 anni fa, precisamente il 13 gennaio 2007, moriva Michael Brecker. Con lui se ne andava un grande protagonista della modernizzazione del sassofono tenore. Maestro e mentore per una generazione di musicisti che tra gli anni '70 e '80 cercava altre fonti di “inspirazione". Prima con il fratello Randy fonda i Brecker Brothers e poi, soprattutto, ...

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Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge: The Comet's Tail: Performing the Compositions of Michael Brecker

Read "The Comet's Tail: Performing the Compositions of Michael Brecker" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
October 29, 2009

What better way to commemorate Michael Brecker than with a CD by a hard-driving big band playing his compositions. Brecker, the great tenor saxophonist died in 2007. His music and talent will be long remembered, and Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge have put together a wonderful selection of arrangements, starring some of today's best of ...