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David Sherr

I have lived in Chicago, Baltimore, Tulsa, New York and LA, mostly LA. I began to play the clarinet and saxophone in high school, took up the flute in 1960 and the oboe (at the instigation of Plas Johnson and Sheridon Stokes) in 1966. Composition came later. In 1960 I moved to Tulsa and after a brief period with a band that made some pretty funny sounds, I joined the Ernie Fields Orchestra. Ernie's band had existed since the early 1930s, flirted with success briefly in the 1940s, and even won the Pittsburgh Courier poll in 1947 over the Ellington and Basie bands. (The Courier was then the most widely circulated African-American newspaper in the country.) By the late 1950s the band had shrunk to eight pieces and a remarkable singer, Ann Walls

Otherworld Music

By David Sherr

Label: Bel Air Jazz
Released: 2008
Track listing: Ich Will Den Kreuztab Gerne Tragen, BWV 56; ...Then Have I the Eagle's Powers, Then I Soar Up From This World; Le Merle Noir Pour Flute Et Piano; Au Revoir Merle Noir; Quartet for the End of Time: Abime Des Oiseaux; Medley: Quartet for the End of Time/Otherworld Music; A Little Flight Music; To the Muses.

Tribute

Label: JRI Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Something's Coming (Oscar Peterson Trio); Tin Tin Deo (Oscar Peterson Trio); Bossa Beguine (Oscar Peterson Trio); Watch What Happens (Oscar Peterson Trio); (They Long to Be) Close to You (Erroll Garner Quartet); My Foolish Heart (Bill Evans Trio); Freeway (Vince Guaraldi Trio); Lonely Woman (Horace Silver Trio); First Trip (Herbie Hancock Trio); You Look Good To Me (Oscar Peterson Trio); Blues Etude (Oscar Peterson Trio).

Jazz Arts Trio: Tribute

by C. Michael Bailey
November 11, 2008

The difference between jazz improvisation and composed variations on a theme is that the former is dynamic, while the latter is static. In jazz, improvisation amounts to “spontaneous composition," where a melodic variation over a harmonic skeleton occurs instantly. Improvisations on a theme in this sense are not written down prior to being played. However, these ...

David Sherr and the Bel Air Jazz Ensemble: Otherworld Music

by C. Michael Bailey
September 24, 2008

California saxophonist and composer David Sherr's music is like the meal one receives at that well conceived multi-ethnic restaurant. It delights with such unexpected entree combinations that work so well together, the patrons must reconsider their idea of what is good. I suspect that this is the intention of all art-on-the-edge. David Sherr's previous release, the ...