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Saxophonist/Composer Roger Aldridge Launches New Website

Source: Roger Aldridge
November 9, 2013

A selection of Roger Aldridge's original music can be heard at rogeraldridge.com. In addition, to recordings and videos, the new site includes the latest news about his music projects, biography, articles, and a page having a featured composition each week. One of the articles at Roger's site describes his concepts of writing for mid-size jazz ensemble. As he envisions it, a mid-size ensemble can be approached in fundamentally different ways than with a conventional big band. That is, going beyond ...

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Roger Aldridge's Collaboration Project Is Open For Submissions

Source: Roger Aldridge
June 11, 2013

Roger Aldridge is hosting a collaboration project through Talenthouse. To participate in the project musicians and ensembles listen to a selection of his original music (link is in the project description), find a piece that you especially like, contact Roger for a copy of the music, and submit a recording of it expressing your vision of the piece to Talenthouse between now and August 20. Voting for the submissions takes place August 21-28. Afterwards, Roger will make his selection of ...

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