Results for "Chip McNeill"

Chip McNeill

In a Funk

By Justin Haynes

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: La Tormenta; In a Funk; Another Star; Impressions of You; Chucho; Moth Man; The Quokka; Tico-Tico; Have You Heard.

The Justin Haynes Jazz Collective: In a Funk

by Jack Bowers
November 30, 2022

In a Funk is the second recording as leader by Illinois-bred composer / arranger Justin Haynes, the first by his eighteen-member Jazz Collective. As was true of his debut album, Shoeless in Georgetown (2015), the most impressive cards are Haynes' splendid charts, ably performed by an ensemble of accomplished and purposeful musicians from the Chicago area. ...

Take Five with Matthew Muñeses

by AAJ Staff
July 18, 2022

Meet Matthew Muñeses Matthew Muñeses is a saxophonist and educator residing in the northwest suburbs of jny: Chicago. In 2011, he received his B.M. in Saxophone Performance at Illinois State University and his M.M. in Jazz Performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. During this time, Matthew studied with Dana Hall, Chip McNeill, ...

Clark Gibson + Orchestra: Bird with Strings: The Lost Arrangements

by Hrayr Attarian
February 20, 2016

Alto saxophonist Clark Gibson's Bird with Strings: The Lost Arrangements is an ambitious undertaking and, at first glance, a bold statement. Evoking, arguably the greatest jazz musician, saxophonist Charlie Parker is not an easy task. Gibson, however, is not emulating Parker nor making any stylistic claims to his legacy. He is simply paying homage ...

Clark Gibson + Orchestra: Bird with Strings: The Lost Arrangements

by Jack Bowers
January 17, 2016

The story behind Bird with Strings: The Lost Arrangements is a long one and far too elaborate to dwell on here. Suffice to say that a handful of these arrangements for alto saxophone and small string orchestra, written originally for the incomparable Charlie Parker, have been heard before (albeit by rather small audiences) while most of ...

Justin Haynes: Shoeless in Georgetown

by Jack Bowers
September 6, 2015

Shoeless in Georgetown (there's a story there, but that's for another time) was recorded in April 2015 before an enthusiastic audience at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. The leader of the band is Justin Haynes. What is known is that Haynes, who holds a masters degree in Jazz Composition, teaches (music, of course) at schools in ...