Home » Search Center » Results: Adam Unsworth
Results for "Adam Unsworth"
About Adam Unsworth
Instrument: French horn
Related Articles | Concerts | Albums | Photos | Similar ToResults for pages tagged "Adam Unsworth"...
Adam Unsworth
Born:
The highly disciplined, truck driving, pavement pounding, nail banging, Civil War buff (His self-renovated fixer-upper even dates back to 1865), and proud papa of three debunks popular music mythology: classical musician does not equal jazz artist. Adam Unsworth, French hornist with The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1998 embraces the jazz idiom with the same guile and gusto as he does everything else in life. At age 10, Unsworth confided in his first horn instructor, a professor at the local University, “I’m going to be principal horn of The Philadelphia Orchestra.” Well, almost, but the fall of 2005 is where the story takes an alternate route. His ride began in 1968
Beyond Orbits
By Miho Hazama
Label: Edition Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Abeam; A Monk in Ascending and Descending; Exoplanet Suite: I. Elliptical Orbit (feat. Christian McBride); Exoplanet Suite: II. Three Sunlights; Exoplanet Suite: III. Planet Nine; Can't Hide Love; Portrait of Guess; From Life Comes Beauty
Beyond Orbits
By Miho Hazama
Label: Edition Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Abeam; A Monk In Ascending And Descending; Exoplanet Suite I. Elliptical Orbit; Exoplanet Suite II. Three Sunlights; Exoplanet Suite III. Planet Nine; Can’t Hide Love; Portrait Of Guess; From Life Comes Beauty.
Marshall Gilkes: Cyclic Journey
by Dan Bilawsky
Wonders never cease with Marshall Gilkes. Having previously reached extraordinary heights as a leader on a breakout quartet set, two standout quintet dates, a pair of essential releases with the WDR Big Band and one stunning trio album, this celebrated trombonist and composer now moves beyond known borders. Directing and fronting a sui generis assemblage merging ...
Cyclic Journey
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Part I: First Light; Part II: Up and Down; Part III: The Calm; Go Get It!; Part V: Respite; Part VI: Beat the Clock; Part VII: Genre Battles; Part VIII: Musings; Part IX: Cyclic Journey; Bonus Track: Sin Filtro.
Two New Perfect Albums
I'm sorry to cost you money, but trust me, these will be dollars well spent. Two albums crossed my desk recently that are close to perfect. One is a jazz orchestral album and another is a bossa nova release by way of Spain. I've listened to both from top to bottom multiple times and I can ...
Live
Featuring the music of Adam Unsworth
Duration: 9:01
Mike Vax Big Band / Dave Siebels / Phil Woods / London Horn Sound
by Jack Bowers
Mike Vax Big Band Sounds from the Road Summit Records 2009 As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby entertained millions with their road" movies in the 1940s, so the Mike Vax Big Band has its own road show," arguably as entertaining but playing to much smaller audiences than Hope ...
Excerpt This!
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: Excerpt This!; Third Time's The Charm; Halfway There; Waltz With A View; Graham's
Crackers--Ballad, Swing, Samba; All I Need; Bluefire Crown II; Use Guise.
Adam Unsworth: Defying Convention
by Ken Kase
With his debut CD, Excerpt This! (Self-Published, 2006). French hornist Adam Unsworth has shown himself to be unafraid of the conventional boundaries that exist between the jazz and classical worlds. A member of the Philadelphia Orchestra and faculty member at Temple University, his first recorded foray into jazz composition and performance brings a fresh voice to ...