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Len Phillips Big Band

The Len Phillips Big Band is made up of sixteen of the country’s finest musicians plus two of its most accomplished singers. Current personnel: TRUMPETS Pablo Mendelssohn Stuart Brooks Tony Fisher Trevor Barber TROMBONES Andy Flaxman Keith Hutton Chris Gower Bob Maslin SAXES Roy Willox Jon Shenoy David Black Matt Hope Colin Hickman PIANO Don Hunt DRUMS Harold Fisher The orchestra draws its repertoire from the libraries of the best big bands from both sides of the Atlantic - bands such as Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, The Rat Pack, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Ted Heath, Ken Mackintosh, Benny Goodman and many more. The programme, although ever evolving, always provides excitement, nostalgia and class. Nearly thirty years after its inception and now under the leadership of Joe Pettitt, the band can be seen up and down the country playing at concert halls, theatres, festivals and jazz clubs.

Shatano Irad Cruz

Shatano I Cruz: Multiinstrumentalist, Composer, Producer

Curtis Mayfield

Born: June 3, 1942

With a distinctive, highly recognizable tenor voice, an unparalleled catalog of enduring pop and soul classics and an honored place in the pantheon of American music, Curtis Mayfield is without question one of the most influential and beloved artist/songwriters of his time. Born in Chicago in 1942, Mayfield absorbed the city's rich heritage of blues and gospel music and even before reaching his teen years he had formed his first group, The Alphatones. Later, renewing a childhood friendship with Jerry Butler, he formed a group with three others, brothers Arthur and Richard Brooks and Sam Gooden, all from Tennessee

Matt Nowlin

Born: October 20, 1986

Matt Nowlin is a jazz trumpeter and composer living in Chicago, Illinois. He received his degree in Jazz Studies from Indiana University. He has led, composed for, or performed with several groups, ranging from small group jazz and big band swing to hip hop and folk. His favorite musical personalities are Paul Simon, Neil Young, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Ravel, Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington. He may or may not name his first child, due in May, after Thelonious Monk.

Joe Clark

Born: April 25, 1986

Joe Clark is an active composer and arranger of music in a wide variety of styles and idioms. Working with Dr. Cliff Colnot, Clark is an arranger for The Institute for Learning, Access and Training at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, writing for the Once Upon a Symphony and Orchestra Explorers programs. Joe's music has been performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Phil Woods, Ira Sullivan, Jim McNeely, the Chicago Sinfonietta, Bob Lark and his Alumni Big Band, the Tom Matta Big Band, Mulligan Mosaics Nonet, DePaul University Jazz Ensemble, University of Cincinnati CCM Jazz Lab Band, Chicago Q Ensemble, thingNY, Julia Bentley and the Spektral Quartet, and players from the Grant Park Symphony and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Darrell Katz

Born: March 22, 1951

Director of the Jazz Composers Alliance, helped to found the organization after being impressed by the success of other composers collective groups. Originally from Topeka, Kansas, Katz has lived in the Boston area since 1975. Katz has synthesized a wide range of influences including modern classical, folk/blues traditions, and the entire jazz legacy into a mature and personal compositional style which has marked him as "one of Boston's most ambitious and provocative jazz composers" (the Boston Phoenix). This is exemplified, for instance, in his "Variations On A Theme By Jimi Hendrix, combined with his arrangement of "Manic Depression," which been described as "celebrating the night that Jimi Hendrix and Igor Stravinsky got into a fight while having dinner at Duke Ellington's house." More recently he has been exploring the relationship of text and music, in a series of collaborations with poet Paula Tatarunis, culminating in the release his improvisational cantata, The Death Of Simone Weil, which features vocalist Rebecca Shrimpton. "There's an impressive variety of textures, colors, and rhythm in all of the JCA's collaborations, but it's never attempted anything like Katz's Simone Weil," writes the Boston Phoenix's Jon Garelick, who picked the album as one of the top 10 releases of 2003, "This work is eerie and moving, and even swinging." He appears regularly with the JCA Orchestra, the JCA Sax Quartet, and sometimes with his own group, The Darrell Katz Dreamland Orchestra. The JCA, formed in 1985, has presented such major Jazz Composer/Performers as Julius Hemphill, Fred Ho, Dave Holland, Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Davis, Henry Threadgill, Maria Schneider, Tim Berne, and Sam Rivers. Katz's music can be heard on the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra CD's, FLUX, which also feature Julius Hemphill and Sam Rivers, Dreamland, The Death Of Simone Weil, In Thru & Out and Celebration Of The Spirit

Jon Haaland

Born: September 12, 1948

Jon Haaland Storband er mitt prosjektband. Det gjør det mulig for meg å få framført egne komposisjoner for stort jazzorkester. Hvem som spiller kan variere, men det som ligger fast er et band bestående av 17 musikere i en tradisjonell storbandbesetning, altså fem saxofoner (event. fløyter/klarinetter), fire trompeter/flygelhorn, fire tromboner, gitar, piano, bass og slagverk.

Aldo Brizzi

Born: June 7, 1960

ALDO BRIZZI lives in an immaginarium which is lost somewhere between Caetano Veloso and Ennio Morricone... both of which have sung his praises. "is an Italian living part of the year in Brazil. In Salvador he mixed the Afro music of Bahia with classical and vanguard on an album called "Brizzi do Brasil". Such luminaries as Caetano Veloso, Giberto Gil, Tom Zé and Teresa Salgueiro participated as guests on this album, which is considered a masterpiece for its originality". (Sony Japan)

Simon Mas

Born: September 22, 1978

Simon Mas is a guitar player and composer of international experience. He studied at Il Pentagramma (Bari, Italy), Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA), Newcastle University (Newcastle, UK), University of Texas (Austin, TX). He received a Degree in Music and a Masters Degree in Composition and Musicology from Newcastle University. Other achievements: * Honour student at University of Texas * On the Dean's list at Berklee College of Music. Simon has recently completed his first Jazz project, Valentine. The album features seven young (average age: 31) musicians from Austin, Texas and six songs composed and arranged by Simon himself

Tyler Vander Maas

Born: August 8, 1989

In 2007 Tyler entered the Jazz Studies program at Michigan State University, directed by Rodney Whitaker, former bassist of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The program provided him the opportunity to study with world-class musicians and perform with jazz greats, including Mulgrew Miller, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wycliffe Gordon, Jon Faddis, and Jimmy Heath. While completing his degree, Tyler took every opportunity to perform with both university and independent jazz ensembles. He performed with MSU Jazz Orchestra I at the Detroit International Jazz Festival in 2008, 2009, and 2010. In 2008, he joined the Jon Beshay Sextet and performed with them at the historic Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit