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Article: Album Review

Darrell Katz and the JCA Orchestra: Rats Live on No Evil Star

Read "Rats Live on No Evil Star" reviewed by Jack Bowers


It's a pretty sure bet that appraising any album whose title is also a palindrome isn't going to be a stroll in the park, even more so when the orchestra in question is the Jazz Composers Alliance (rule of thumb: the longer the name, the more abstruse the music) and the instrumentation includes voice, marimba, EWI, ...

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Article: Album Review

Darrell Katz and the JCA Orchestra: Rats Live on No Evil Star

Read "Rats Live on No Evil Star" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Listening to Darrell Katz's music, it boggles the mind that he is not celebrated as one of the best jazz composers-arrangers around. He has been creating ambitious and accessible works full of humor, social conscience and creativity for decades in the Boston area with the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra and other groups, yet you rarely hear ...

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To An Angel

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Label: JCA Recordings
Released: 2018
Duration: 7:14

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News: Performance / Tour

JCA Orchestra At The Lily Pad in Cambridge on April 10, 2018 at 8pm

JCA Orchestra At The Lily Pad in Cambridge on April 10, 2018 at 8pm

JCA ORCHESTRA in concert, Tuesday, April 10, 8PM at The LilyPad in Inman Square. The Jazz Composers Alliance will present new music by resident composers David Harris, Darrell Katz & Bob Pilkington Donations are $15, and $10 for students and seniors. On Tuesday, April 10, at 8PM, the 20-piece JCA Orchestra will present a program of ...

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Jailhouse Doc With Holes In Her Socks

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Prayer; Jailhouse Doc with Holes in Her Socks; Tell Time; Lemmings; Like a Wind; LLAP Libertango; Squirrel; Gerbils; Gone Now; Red Blue; Ye Watchers And; The Red Blues/Red Blue.

Article: Album Review

Darrell Katz and OddSong: Jailhouse Doc With Holes In Her Socks

Read "Jailhouse Doc With Holes In Her Socks" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Darrell Katz è noto per la trentennale direzione della bostoniana Jazz Composers Alliance con cui ha inciso nove dischi ospitando musicisti prestigiosi come Steve Lacy, Muhal Abrams, Henry Threadgill, Sam Rivers o Tim Berne. In questo nuovo album l'orchestra (con Oliver Lake ospite) è però confinata a chiusura del lavoro, appena dopo un brano con il ...

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Jailhouse Doc With Holes In Her Socks

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Prayer; Jailhouse Doc With Holes In Her Socks; Tell Time; Lemmings; Like A Wind; LLAP Libertango; Squirrel; Gerbils; Gone Now; Red Blue; Ye Watchers And; The Red Blues/Red Blue.

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Article: Year in Review

Jerome Wilson's Best Releases of 2016

Read "Jerome Wilson's  Best Releases of 2016" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Any “best of the year" list is really a snapshot in time. It's impossible to listen to all the worthwhile jazz music out there so you end up making a list based on what you've heard during the year. With apologies to Kris Davis, John Scofield, Darcy James Argue and all the other musicians whose CDs ...

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Jailhouse Doc With Holes in Her Socks

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Duration: 5:59

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Article: Album Review

Darrell Katz and OddSong: Jailhouse Doc With Holes In Her Socks

Read "Jailhouse Doc With Holes In Her Socks" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Darrell Katz has been working in Boston for over 30 years compiling an impressive body of work as leader of the Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra whose music has drawn from current events, literary works and anecdotes about Charles Mingus and Albert Einstein among other sources. On this new CD he revisits several of the compositions he's ...


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