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Jody Redhage Ferber
Jody Redhage Ferber, passionate advocate of creative new music and chamber music, is a "a new music dynamo...Redhage is cultivating a growing repertoire of indie art song that breaches genre boundaries and makes for stirring listening" (MusicWorks magazine). Praised for her “exceptional technical command,” (Steve Smith, Night After Night), Redhage Ferber has premiered over 100 works, including almost 30 that she has commissioned for her voice, cello, and electronics from some of today's most talented composers. An active composer herself, she writes mainly for chamber jazz ensemble Rose & the Nightingale, and co-arranges and performs new repertoire for the unique instrumentation of cello/voice, trombone, & drums/percussion with her husband, Grammy-nominated trombonist and composer Alan Ferber, and his twin, drummer Mark Ferber. As a multi-style cellist, Redhage Ferber is a busy recording session player and a mainstay performer on several groundbreaking scenes, contributing to the ever-increasing 21st century blur of musical boundary lines.
AS A MULTISTYLE CELLIST
Although classically-trained, with studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, University of California Berkeley, and the Manhattan School of Music, Redhage Ferber began playing nonclassical styles as a teenager. When she settled in New York City in 2003, her adventurous and open nature led to musical exploration across a spectrum of styles, and Redhage Ferber quickly garnered attention as an "Adventurous cello songstress (Time Out NY)," commissioning new solo works for her voice, cello, and electronics, and is hired as a double-threat cellist & backing vocalist for pop and jazz artists. Redhage Ferber has performed on five continents in venues including Carnegie Hall (Stern and Weill Halls), Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Merkin Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music opera house, the Whitney Museum of Art, Mass MoCA, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits. The Ferber Duo recently premiered their own chamber jazz-inflected arrangement of the C Major Bach Suite at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in March 2020. From 2010 to 2015, Redhage Ferber toured with Best New Artist Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding's Chamber Music Society, performing worldwide at the Montreal, North Sea, Montreux, Cape Town South Africa, San Francisco, and Portland Jazz Festivals, and in the Barbican and Queen Elizabeth Halls in London, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, Symphony Hall in Chicago, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, a week-long residency at Tokyo's Blue Note Jazz Club, a week at the Village Vanguard, on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert Series, and for Holland and France's NPR stations. She has performed and recorded with jazz luminaries Fred Hersch, Ron Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Andy Milne, and the New York Voices, with new music luminaries George Crumb, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Lois V. Vierk, and Julia Wolfe, and with pop icons Neil Diamond, Sufjan Stevens, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Meatloaf, the Roots, Clay Aiken, Enya, Duncan Sheik, Guster, Hem, My Brightest Diamond, Fall Out Boy, Chromeo, and Sara Bareilles, among others. Jody has appeared on TV playing on ABC's The View, the CBS Early Show, NBC's The Today Show, the Rockefeller Christmas Spectacular, Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The David Letterman Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and BET's Mo'NiqueShow. She has recorded for Sesame Street, and on many albums, commercials, and films, and can be heard on the soundtrack of HBO documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present.
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Jody Redhage Ferber / Alan Ferber / Mark Ferber: Confluence

by Dan Bilawsky
Cellist Jody Redhage Ferber has been at the forefront of creative music for two decades, effectively straddling the line between jazz and classical settings. Her husband, celebrated trombonist Alan Ferber, is one of this genre's premiere large group composers, having garnered multiple Grammy nominations and topped polls with both his nonet and big band. His twin brother, ace drummer Mark Ferber, has long been a first call to both jazz stars and up-and-comers. Together, these three have experienced personal and ...
Continue ReadingMike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters

by Jack Bowers
This Rock We're On, acclaimed composer and pianist Mike Holober's 2024 recording as leader of the Gotham Jazz Orchestra, is challenging to summarize in mere words, as it consists of a multi-part suite (on two CDs) which blends jazz, classical and art songs in a thematic environment that uses a series of imaginary letters" from a half dozen writers, artists and activists. Holober's orchestral response to them is the premise for a meditation on the beauty of nature and the ...
Continue ReadingBen Kono Group: Voyages

by Jerome Wilson
This album is saxophonist Ben Kono's tribute to his family's history, dating back to his grandfather's migration from Japan to the United States in 1911, performed by a combination of small jazz group and string quartet, The first half of the work concerns with his family's transition into life in the United States, and the second half celebrates four generations of Kono's lineage, going from his grandparents all the way through to his own children. The strings are ...
Continue ReadingMike Holober & the Gotham City Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters

by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo gli ultimi superlativi album orchestrali (Balancing Act, Palmetto 2015 e Hiding Out, Zoho 2019) la nuova incisione di Mike Holober con la Gotham Jazz Orchestra non dovrebbe stupirci, eppure questo doppio album ci ha nuovamente colpito. L'aggiunta di Chris Potter, John Patitucci, Nir Felder e della cantante brasiliana Jamile Staevie Ayres all'orchestra rende infatti il progetto quanto mai esaltante. Questi nomi completano un organico già nutrito di solisti ragguardevoli come Marvin Stamm e Scott Wendholt alle trombe, ...
Continue ReadingRyan Truesdell: Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions

by Angelo Leonardi
«L'idea di Synthesis--dice Ryan Truesdell presentando il progetto--è nata dalla consapevolezza che molti compositori di jazz traggono ispirazione dalla scrittura per quartetto d'archi di eminenti compositori classici come Bartok, Brahms e Ravel, e dalla necessità di trovare un modo realistico e al tempo stesso stimolante per creare musica insieme». Il giovane orchestratore, divenuto famoso per aver dato vita a inedite partiture di Gil Evans, presenta un progetto di 17 composizioni per quartetto d'archi (alcune in forma di ...
Continue ReadingMike Holober: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters

by Dan McClenaghan
We live on a rock. A few billion years of the workings of the complexities of carbon chemistry put us here. The systems and intricacies of every element that has unfolded to maintain us should be respected and preserved. Mike Holober's This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters, featuring Holober and his Gotham Jazz Orchestra, digs into this theme in a sprawling, two-disc big band jazz outing. Like life itself, and the resulting ecosystems, this multi-movement suite--an effort that is the ...
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Image of Mystery
From: Synthesis: The String Quartet...By Jody Redhage Ferber
Lay of the Land
From: This Rock We're On: Imaginary...By Jody Redhage Ferber
Break
From: Break (Single)By Jody Redhage Ferber