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Andrew Schiller Quintet: Sonoran
by Jerome Wilson
The Sonoran Desert lies across the American Southwest and Northwestern Mexico. It is where bassist Andrew Schiller was born and it is the inspiration for the music on this CD he has written that draws from jazz, folk and classical sources. Schiller's quintet has a front line of tenor sax, alto sax and bass clarinet which combine into a consistently interesting blend of sounds. On “Gambelii" the three leap around together in tight unison on the theme before ...
read moreAndrew Schiller Quintet: Tied Together, Not to the Ground
by Geno Thackara
Andrew Schiller may be fairly young and only starting his recording career, but he's already learned some very good lessons. His debut as a leader demonstrates a level of compositional smarts that's impressive at any age, quietly building a series of coolly thoughtful quintet pieces, boasting an excellent ensemble and arranging each part in service of a well-constructed whole. From listening alone, you wouldn't guess that his earliest musical experiences came with playing electric bass in a punk ...
read moreNew England Conservatory Jazz Studies Student Andrew Schiller And Alumni Jeff Schneider And Christopher Zuar
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Receive 2014 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards New England Conservatory Jazz Studies student Andrew Schiller and alumni Jeff Schneider and Christopher Zuar have been selected to receive 2014 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. Schiller is a jazz bassist and composer working toward his Master of Music degree at NEC. Schneider is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who earned his Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Performance from NEC in 2009; this is his third Young Jazz Composers Award. Zuar, ...
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