Jazz Articles about Michael Sarian

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Michael Sarian: New Aurora

Read "New Aurora" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
September 27, 2020

With New Aurora, Canadian trumpeter Michael Sarian takes a few steps down a different path to his past projects, leaving bigger ensembles and electric instrumentations behind to focus on ten arrangements carried out in an acoustic quartet setting. In this more dynamic light, the trumpeter is given space to unfold and spread his melodic voice and personal language. Sarian takes advantage of this in a minimal way. A heightened sense of sophistication can be heard as a result, leaving the ...

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The NYChillharmonic: Mean

by Mike Jurkovic
July 25, 2020

Having toured across five continents, you have to figure that no matter what musical element dares to share physical space within Brooklyn keyboard/vocalist Sara McDonald's brain-bending flight path, it is going to be grabbed by the scruff of the neck and turned it into something forceful. Something fierce. Something startlingly her own. Leader of the eighteen piece, (sometimes twenty, sometimes more or less), orchestral-punk-prog-jazz-rock the NYChillharmonic, McDonald unveils the utterly invigorating “Mean," a churning, sawing, simmering shard of ...

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Michael Sarian & The Chadbones: Leon

by Angelo Leonardi
December 12, 2019

Canadese di nascita, il trombettista e compositore Michael Sarian ha vissuto infanzia e adolescenza in Argentina assimilando vari elementi di quel patrimonio musicale. Dopo il trasferimento negli Stati Uniti nel 2012 -dove ha acquisito un master's degree in jazz studies alla New York University -guida un quartetto e una formazione orchestrale, esprimendo una ricca sintesi tra ritmi argentini, rock e jazz contemporaneo. Questo terzo disco sviluppa alcune linee dei precedenti lavori ( Subtitles e The Escape Suite) attraverso cinque nuove ...

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Michael Sarian & The Chabones: The Escape Suite

Read "The Escape Suite" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
October 18, 2015

When he was all of one year of age, trumpeter Michael Sarian relocated from his birthplace in Canada to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Learning from some of that country's top musicians, Sarian began touring in Europe while still a teenager. Having worked in rock, disco and big bands, he eventually moved to New York where he studied jazz at NYU. While enrolled in that program he played and recorded with Joe Lovano and fusion guitarist Wayne Krantz among others.Sarian's ...