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About Alex Iles
Instrument: Trombone
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Alex Iles

Alexander Iles is an American trombonist who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts, Azusa Pacific University, and California State University, Northridge. He has toured as lead and solo jazz trombonist with Maynard Ferguson, with whom he has recorded twice, and Woody Herman. He began his musical career while a student at UCLA. He studied trombone privately with Roy Main, Ralph Sauer, Byron Peebles, and Per Brevig. Iles has worked with Joe Cocker, Alan Jackson, The Tonight Show, Prince, Harry Connick Jr., the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Johnny Mathis, Natalie Cole, Danny Elfman, Avenged Sevenfold, Ray Charles, Robbie Williams, Terence Blanchard, Hans Zimmer, Henry Mancini, James Horner, Lalo Schifrin, Trevor Rabin, and John Williams. In the 2000s, he performed with the Tom Kubis Big Band, Bob Florence's Limited Edition] and Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
Convergency

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Convergency; Uncommonly Ground; Duelity; A Gathering Circle; A Curve in the Road; Inner Voices;
Sometimes
a Notion; Vanishing Point; And Now the News; I Had the Craziest Dream.
Convergency

Album: Convergency
By Dave Slonaker
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:10
Rhythm Abstraction: Azure

Label: Cacophony
Released: 2020
Track listing: Echopraxia; Balinese Butterflies; Emma's Dilemma; Last Call; Madness!; Dreams of Salvadore Dali's Llama; Panoply.
Echopraxia

Album: Rhythm Abstraction: Azure
By Frank Macchia
Label: Cacophony
Released: 2020
Duration: 02:23
Rich Willey's Boptism Big Band: Down & Dirty

by Jack Bowers
What's in a name? While that maxim remains a matter for debate, don't let this particular name mislead you. In the parlance of trumpeter Rich Willey's Los Angeles-based Boptism Big Band, Down & Dirty translates into well-scrubbed & swinging. There's really no better way to describe the performance of eleven of Willey's wide-ranging compositions and one ...
Frank Macchia: Rhythm Kaleidoscope

by Troy Dostert
With a host of wide-ranging work not only as a musician but also as a producer and arranger for television and film projects, Frank Macchia has never been one to rest on his laurels. Even if you're not familiar with his recordings, chances are you've heard at least one of his many film orchestrations: from The ...
All In

Label: Poundcake Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Maybe By August 7:34
All In 5:06
Schematic 8:36
Magical Mitch 8:16
Almost 6:23
Barely There 5:37
Coming Back Home 4:34
Triad Days 6:16
Falling Sand 5:23
N.O. Rising 4:44
Power In Numbers 6:34
Allen Carter Big Band: Time on My Hands

by Jack Bowers
In 2010, composer / arranger / drummer Allen Carter seemingly appeared from out of nowhere (North Dakota, actually) to record Gifts, his first album as a big-band leader and one of the more impressive anthologies in that or any other year. As 2016 passed its midpoint and moved inexorably toward a final bow, Carter decided the ...
Sal Lozano: Everything's Gonna Be Great

by Jack Bowers
If you're looking for a superlative one-man saxophone section, better call Sal (Lozano). And if you need some dazzling charts to make that section shine, better phone Tom (Kubis, that is). After spending years as one of Southern California's leading sidemen, Sal Lozano has at last recorded an album under his own name, one on which ...