Results for "Brent Laidler"

Brent Laidler

Brent attended Western Michigan University, majoring in Music Education with a minor in Composition. He also attended Red Wing Technical Institute for Band Instrument Repair, owns and operates Brent’s Bench, Inc. Band Instrument Repair Shop in Lafayette and has developed an extensive professional and collegiate faculty clientele during more than three decades of dedicated service to the industry. His endorsements include Purdue Bands, Jacobs School of Music, DePauw, Butler, Ball State Universities and the Indianapolis Symphony as well as three different DCI Corps and the International Trumpet Guild. Brent is a Jazz Clinician and member of the Indiana Jazz Educator’s Association as well as being a composer and performer. He has performed and recorded with Randy Salman, Leonard Foy and Brent Wallarab from the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra with David Baker

Wouldn't Be Here Without You

By Brent Laidler

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Keeping It Simple; Sunday Mood; You Ain’t the Bossa Me; A Second Chance; City by the Bay; Foo’s Blues; Walt’s Waltz; One More; Wouldn’t Be Here Without You; Pretty Little Bossa.

Richie Cole & Danilo Pérez

by Joe Dimino
May 8, 2022

We celebrate our 750th Episode of Neon Jazz with master pianist & humanitarian Danilo Perez. Following that, we hear from his mentor Dizzy Gillespie. As the show moves one, we listen to some great new music from jazz veterans in Jorge Garcia, Mark Buselli with the Ball State University Jazz Band, Brent Laidler and Kevin G ...

Brent Laidler: Wouldn't Be Here Without You

by Richard J Salvucci
April 21, 2022

Stan Getz once said of the best bossa players that they could swing hard without appearing to try. It is also obvious that one of the few good things to come out of the Covid pandemic has been music intended to calm things down a bit. For example, John Pizzarelli's Better Days Ahead(Ghostlight Records, 2021), but ...

Brent Laidler: Wouldn't Be Here Without You

by Patrick Burnette
April 14, 2022

As we slip deeper into the twenty-first century, jazz is a very broad church indeed, an umbrella term referring to dozens of sub-genres and styles. Even with all those tags and labels at our disposal, however, sometimes an album can be a little hard to pigeonhole. Guitarist/arranger/composer Brent Laidler's latest album, Wouldn't Be Here Without You, ...

New Music From Julieta Eugenio, Karl Silveira, Francesca Remigi And More

by Bob Osborne
April 14, 2022

Featured on this week's show are a set of new albums including music from Julieta Eugenio, Karl Silveira, Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda, Francesca Remigi, Amaury Faye & Igor Gehenot, and Brent Laidler. Also just released the second volume of improvisation from Dave Tucker, Pat Thomas, Thurston Moore, and Mark Sanders. Also a first look at ...

Brent Laidler: Wouldn't Be Here Without You

by Jack Bowers
April 13, 2022

Although mostly unnamed, those honored on Indiana-based guitarist Brent Laidler's Wouldn't Be Here Without You are friends, mentors and fellow musicians who have offered encouragement and support on his spiritual and musical journey through life, several of whom comprise the sextet on Laidler's second album as leader. Besides playing guitar (and repairing them ...

No Matter Where Noir

By Brent Laidler

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Intro Dialogue, Downtown by Nine, Jamie's Joynt, Sixth Sense, No Matter Where Noir, Southern Gate, Heavy Memphis Jones, Law of Attraction, Not Just Another Waltz, Meet Me at the Havana Hilton, Keep Me in Mind.

Brent Laidler: No Matter Where Noir

by Patrick Burnette
November 17, 2017

Some jazz albums are notable solely for the well-known personnel featured. These recordings excite interest based on name recognition alone. Even if albums like this lack a coherent vision, fans are willing to pick them up just to hear their favorite players at work. In contrast, composer/guitarist Brent Laidler's No Matter Where Noir , ...