Results for "Chamber Jazz"

Meg Okura

Born: August 9

The New York Times called her music "grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing"(Giovanni Russonello), Meg Okura is a jazz composer and violinist and the founder of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble based in New York. In the last decade, she has won over two dozen prizes and honors, including the 2023 ISJAC Fundamental Freedom Commission and International Women In Music’s 2023 Portland Jazz Composer’s Prize.

Over the last 18 years, her ensembles have graced iconic venues in New York, such as Birdland Jazz Club, Blue Note, Dizzy’s, and Knitting Factory, as well as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., K.L. Jazz Festival in Malaysia, and other performances in the U.S., Israel, Serbia, and Japan. 

Chamber Jazz

By Jacam Manricks

Label: Manricks Music Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Thread; En Etsi Valtaa Loistoa (I Seek No Power or Glory); ECMish; Wandina; Mood Swing; Beethoven; Deception; Forbidden Fruit; Cry; Cloud Nine.

Jacam Manricks: Chamber Jazz

by Dave Wayne
November 19, 2016

Now based in California, composer and multi-reed whiz Jacam Manricks describes himself as “Sri Lankan- Portuguese Australian-born." In other words he's the virtual embodiment of a world citizen. When it comes to his music, Manricks is unafraid to draw from pretty much any source for inspiration. The wryly-titled Chamber Jazz comprises eight Manricks originals plus a ...

Chamber Jazz

By Laurindo Almeida

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1993