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Mike Fahie Jazz Orchestra: Urban(e)

by Jack Bowers
August 5, 2020

Most Western music, irrespective of its origin and premise, inhabits the same harmonic, chordal and rhythmic universe. So it should not be surprising that classical music, in the hands of a skilled arranger, can be readily recast in a jazz idiom, even one that is housed within a big-band framework. On Urban(e), trombonist Mike Fahie's New ...

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Musician

Aaron Irwin

Born: October 26, 1978

Saxophonist, multi-woodwind instrumentalist, and composer Aaron Irwin is from central IL. Recognized as a “lyrical alto saxophonist and a compelling original composer” (Steve Futterman, The New Yorker), Irwin is a sought-after commodity in both the jazz and commercial worlds. His latest recording (After) will be released on Adhyâropa Records in May of 2024 featuring longtime bandmates Mike Baggetta on guitar and Jeff Hirshfield on drums. He has eight other recordings as a leader with instrumentations spanning from trio to sextet. In addition to his own groups, Irwin has performed with many leading jazz voices in the New York music community including the Grammy-nominated, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Jamie Baum’s Septet +, Bob Sabin’s Tentet, The Mike Fahie Jazz Orchestra, the mixed wind group Weathervest, as well as pop artists Kristen Chenoweth, Rufus Wainwright, Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, and The Roots. Irwin maintaines a busy schedule as a freelance musician, performing in jazz clubs, concert halls, and Broadway theatres, working with many of New York’s finest musicians and bands.

Album

Wobegon

By Aaron Irwin

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Wobegon; Birthday Song; Say Hello; Strange Pastoral; Norman; Sunday and All (after William Carlos Williams); High Hat; The Forgiveness of Donald Rusk Currey; And Love's The Burning Boy (After Elizabeth Bishop); Brown Dog.

Album

A Room Forever

By Aaron Irwin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: A Room Forever; In The Dry; The Salvation of Me; The Way It Has To Be; Trilobites; The First Day of Winter; The Honored Dead; Fox Hunters; The Scrapper; Hollow; Time And Again; The Mark.

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Aaron Irwin Quartet: A Room Forever

Read "A Room Forever" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
November 3, 2016

Quartetto dall'approccio molto cameristico questo messo assieme dal clarinettista e compositore statunitense, oggi di stanza a New York. Un camerismo che viene esaltato da un lato dalla formazione, priva di batteria, e dall'altro dalle ispirazioni extramusicali delle composizioni, che fanno riferimento ai racconti dello scrittore statunitense Breece D'J Pancake, morto suicida nel 1979 a soli ventisette ...

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Aaron Irwin Quartet: A Room Forever

Read "A Room Forever" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
April 15, 2016

Reedman Aaron Irwin is a very ambitious composer and on his latest, A Room Forever, shows how to plumb emotional depths with subtlety and grace. The inspiration for this music is the short stories by Breece Dexter John Pancake, sometimes written Breece D'J Pancake, the spelling of which comes from a typo ...

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The Mark

November 17, 2015

Album: A Room Forever
By Aaron Irwin
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Duration: 04:39

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Robert Sabin: Humanity Part II

Read "Humanity Part II" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 17, 2015

Although Humanity Part II, the oracular title of bassist Robert Sabin's new album, may summon images of a Mel Brooks parody (Part I must have slipped past us), the music itself is decidedly serious. In the liner notes, wherein he references Albert Camus, Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter, Ingmar Bergman, Maurice Ravel and Dario Argento, Sabin makes ...

Album

Ordinary Lives

By Aaron Irwin

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: A Winning Smile (For the Champions); The Traveler; Song For Nilsson; Ordinary Lives; Fevered Dream; Holy Roller; Big Blue World; Lost In The Wind; Billions and Billions; Say Goodbye.

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Danny Fox Trio: Wide Eyed

by Dave Wayne
July 17, 2014

So many jazz piano trios, so little time! With Wide Eyed, the Danny Fox Trio proves very definitively that they are worthy of your attention. Fox' wickedly humorous, tightly-conceived, multi- stylistic compositions and his trio's remarkably sensitive interplay are completely attention-grabbing. One listen was enough to make me a believer. Like a lot of the more ...