Jazz Articles about Samson Trinh

Samson Trinh: Very Strange Night

by Michael P. Gladstone
April 12, 2007

File under: “What I did in my senior year". As a senior at VCU (Virginia Commonweath University), twenty-one year-old Samson Trinh completed this album for which he wrote all but one of the tunes and hired some of the best musicians from the Richmond, Virginian area, including members of his own Upper East Side Big Band. In addition to writing nine sings, he further arranged, conducted and produced this album.

Trinh's goal was to create some sort of ...

Samson Trinh: Very Strange Night

by Jack Bowers
February 6, 2007

Samson Trinh is a composer/arranger/orchestrator / bandleader/musical director/producer/saxophonist with degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and the Manhattan School of Music (where he studied composition with pianist Mike Abene). He was the 2005 winner of the Richmond Jazz Society's Joe Kennedy Jr. Scholarship and has composed for and performed with such luminaries as Al Jarreau, Mulgrew Miller, Nellie McKay, Desiree Roots and others. He's the founder/director of the seventeen-piece Upper East Side Big Band and was co-owner and booking manager from ...

Samson Trinh: Very Strange Night

by Jim Santella
January 28, 2007

This collection of music school composition projects says a lot about the student and his university. When finishing his BM in Jazz Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, Samson Trinh held a CD release party at his senior recital. He hired several musicians (listed below) and made this eclectic recording, which features compositions and arrangements from his senior year. While the recording is only 35 minutes long, it covers a wide range of musical styles, from big band and swing to ...