Results for "Andrew Gutauskas"

Andrew Gutauskas

Andrew Gutauskas is a Grammy Award winning saxophonist, film composer, music director, arranger and educator. He has recorded and performed on Broadway, television, film and live around the world with a variety of artists ranging from jazz to rock to hip-hop to Bollywood. He is music director, arranger and saxophonist for the protest band, Brass Against, and is a member of several projects including; Charlie Rosen’s Broadway Big Band & 8-Bit Big Band, the Dan Pugach Nonet, Kyle Saulnier’s Awakening Orchestra, Lucas Pino’s No-Net Nonet, Manuel Valera's New Cuban Express Big Band, Miho Hazama’s M_Unit, the Terraza Big Band, the Uptown Jazz Tentet, Tim & the Space Cadets, The Skivvies and many others.

In 2018, he composed and arranged music for the award winning short film, Baby Won't You Please Come Home, starring Michelle Hurst and Melanie Nicholls-King, written and directed by Christopher Piazza

Soul Conversations

By Ulysses Owens, Jr.

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Two Bass Hit; London Towne; Beardom X; Red Chair; Giant Steps; Language of Flowers; Human Nature; Girl Talk; Harlem Harlem Harlem; Soul Conversations.

Kinetic

By Steven Feifke

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Kinetic; Unveiling of a Mirror; The Sphinx; Until the Real Thing Comes Along; Word Travels Fast; Wollongong; Nica's Dream; On the Street Where You Live; Midnight Beat; Closure.

Steven Feifke: Kinetic

by Dan Bilawsky
July 29, 2021

In terms of physics, kinetic energy is described as a force or power which a body or object possesses by virtue of being in motion. With reference to the aptly named debut from the Steven Feifke Big Band, that ideal is fully applicable. Kinetic, recorded in early 2019 and released in April of 2021, capitalizes on ...

Spike Wilner, Curtis Fuller & Sarah McKenzie

by Joe Dimino
May 30, 2021

Our 701st Show begins with Sarah McKenzie and a great tale from the quarantine. The result is her single “Schneller." We continue to watch the world of music open up with live shows and Spike Wilner is leading the charge. He has new music with his 2021 CD Aliens & Wizards. We continue to profile musicians ...

Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band: Soul Conversations

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2021

Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.'s Big Band comes out swinging on its debut recording, Soul Conversations, thundering through Michael Dease's incendiary arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie/John Lewis flame-thrower, “Two Bass Hit." For more such heat, however, the listener must move forward to Track 5, John Coltrane's impulsive “Giant Steps," thence to Track 9 for Charles Turner III's ...

Steven Feifke Big Band: Kinetic

by Angelo Leonardi
April 8, 2021

Assimilare la tradizione per poi creare cose originali. È questo il percorso che hanno seguito e continuano a seguire i musicisti jazz, in forme e approfondimenti diversi. A 30 anni esatti il pianista Steven Feifke è ancora al primo passo ma in questo scintillante debutto orchestrale dimostra di avere tutte le carte in regola per sviluppare ...

Volume II: To Call Her to a Higher Plan

By Awakening Orchestra

Label: Biophilia Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Prelude & Fanfare: the Patriot; Burn; Throughout; I Can See My Country from Here (Free Labor, Free Land, Free Men / Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité / Ethos, Pathos, Logos / Epilogue); I Remember; To Call Her to a Higher Plain (On the Technicians of Power / First Cadenza / On the Acceptance of Things That We Can Not Change / Second Cadenza / On the Changing of Things That We Can Not Accept); The (desc/diss)ent; Lux Aurumque.

Look Out!

By Andrew Gutauskas

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Look Out! [5:01] 2. The Kingpin [5:51] 3. For the Throne* [6:24] 4. BHM [4:29] 5. Once Upon A Time [6:08] 6. Whistle Blower [5:08] 7. Willie's Willin' [5:42] 8. See You There! [5:30]

What's Next

By Uptown Jazz Tentet

Label: Irabbagast Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Uptown Bass Hit; What's Next; SKJ; Change; Bramblin'; Pursue; Mance's Dance; Infant Eyes; In a Sentimental Mood; Voyage.