Darren Kramer

David Caffey Jazz Orchestra: At the Edge of Spring

by Jack Bowers
February 13, 2025

With his album, At the Edge of Spring, composer and arranger David Caffey and his Colorado-based Jazz Orchestra not only defy the widely-held belief that big bands are dead, they emphatically blow that axium out of the water. This is an ensemble with no discernible weaknesses, as proficient and powerful as any that have come before it or are likely to follow. To verify that impression, you need only couple your ears with an open mind. As ...

Wil Swindler: Space Bugs

by Jack Bowers
February 23, 2023

Space Bugs is essentially multi-layered yet readily accessible chamber jazz admirably performed by saxophonist/composer Wil Swindler's Colorado-based Eleventet—a finely woven banquet for the ears that was handsomely recorded in May 2022 before an appreciative audience at Denver's Mighty Fine Productions. Gil Evans springs to mind when listening, as do Pete Rugolo and late- career Bob Brookmeyer. As a composer, Swindler writes that he has “always been between worlds," loving “the pristine intervals and warm timbres of orchestral ...

View, Listen and Shop for Trombonist Darren Kramer's CDs, Compositions & Arrangements

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2007

Featured Artist Darren Kramer - View, listen and shop for Darren Kramer's cds' and compositions & arrangements! ... and buy any 2 products from Darren Kramer and receive Darrens' latest CD DKO Electric Quartet absolutely free!!!

Darren Kramer is an Edwards Trombone Performing Artist and is in demand as a freelance trombonist, clinician, composer, arranger and producer throughout the United States.

Kramer was raised in a musical family near beautiful Boulder, Colorado. His father was a music copyist and arranger ...
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Darren Kramer's Great CDs and Exciting Compositions/Arrangements Available Online

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2006

TrombonesOnline.com in association with Darren Kramer, is proud to feature Darren Kramer's great cds' and exciting compositions & arrangements!

Darren Kramer is an Edwards Trombone Performing Artist and is in demand as a freelance trombonist, clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States. Kramer graduated from the University of Miami (FL) and moved to New York City where he toured with Matchbox Twenty, Tom Jones, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies. He has made national television appearances on The ...
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