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Performance / Tour

Michael McNeill With Drew Gress & Phil Haynes Tonight In Brooklyn

Source: Michael McNeill
December 7, 2012

Michael McNeill’s trio with the bassist Drew Gress and the drummer Phil Haynes explores the pianist’s original compositions, which range from lyrical ballads, to hard-driving jazz, to avant-garde soundscapes. Gress and Haynes are a seasoned rhythm team — their collaboration goes back nearly three decades, and they appear together on some 18 albums — and with McNeill they push and pull the pianist’s music in new directions. Over the past four years McNeill has become an integral part of the ...

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Event

Tonight: "Phantom Of The Opera" & Members Of The New Buffalo Jazz Octet

Source: Michael McNeill
October 26, 2012

A little over a year ago saxophonist Kelly Bucheger and I talked about starting an octet to play some of our original jazz music. The musicians we gathered into the New Buffalo Jazz Octet were: tenor/soprano saxophonist Nelson Rivera, baritone saxophonist Steve Baczkowksi, trumpeter Tim Clarke, trombonist Phil Sims, bassist Dave Arenius, and drummer John Bacon. We also brought on board conductor Brendan Fitzgerald to help steer the band through the new material. Looking at this list of improvisers from ...

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Recording

Saxophonist Kelly Bucheger Releases "House Of Relics"

Source: Michael McNeill
June 11, 2012

Kelly Bucheger, renowned alto/tenor saxophonist, composer, bandleader and (sometime) jazz journalist has just released a new album of his own compositions, House of Relics. He is joined by some of Buffalo’s finest jazz musicians: trumpet/flugelhorn player Tim Clarke, pianist Michael McNeill, bassist Danny Ziemann, drummer Russ Alegra, and baritone saxophonist Bruce Johnstone. “Bucheger’s compositions continuously astound in their inventiveness, and throughout “House of Relics,” the interplay among the musicians is nigh-on-sublime. This is present-day jazz of the highest order." —Jeff ...

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Recording

Michael McNeill Trio: Passageways

Source: Michael McNeill
November 3, 2011

Pianist Michael McNeill releases his debut CD as a leader, with renowned improvisers Ken Filiano (bass) and Phil Haynes (drums). The disc features five of McNeill's original compositions, performed live in Buffalo, NY in December 2010. Buffalo engineer Bill Sack recorded the concert, and Jon Rosenberg provided the mixing and mastering. CDs and digital downloads may be ordered through BandCamp, where you can also listen to three of the five tracks in their entirety. Some comments from the pianist/composer: Most ...

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