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October 28, 2023

Album: Reunion
By Drew Zaremba
Label: Next Level
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:26

Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra

Founded in 2012 by bandleader Art Bouton with a mission to perform the best music with the best musicians, the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra does just that and more. Exciting world-renowned guest artists and many of the finest musicians in the region perform dynamic big band classics and contemporary jazz to enthusiastic crowds across Colorado.

Venues like the Arvada Center, PACE Center in Parker, Parsons Theatre in Northglenn, Lone Tree Arts Center, and Lakewood Cultural Center have heard music from Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Maynard Ferguson and Buddy Rich’s bands as well as original arrangements by CJRO composers and many more across the nation.

Composer, Saxophonist, And Organist Drew Zaremba's 'Reunion' Is An Eclectically Jubilant Take On The Big Band Genre

September 11, 2023

Drew Zaremba is saxophonist, organist, and rightfully lauded powerhouse of an arranger and composer. Drawing eclectic influence from icons of big band, heroes of classical music, and the luminaries of British Rock, Zaremba combines, concocts, and creates with a refreshing originality in the wildest of never-before-imagined manners. Described as a musician who “writes and plays from ...

UNT One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2021

by Jack Bowers
June 23, 2022

The University of North Texas' flagship ensemble, the One O'Clock Lab Band, has been producing annual recordings for almost half a century. It has also given rise to a veritable assembly line of world-class jazz musicians, more of whom are no doubt coming of age while honing their chops on the One O'Clock's latest album, Lab ...

A Vida Com Paixão

By Rosana Eckert

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Samba Jiji; A Vida Com Paixao; Road to Hermeto; Marakandombe; Deusa Do Meu Carnival; Reina's Song; Praia Felix; La Higuera; Confundido; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Drew Zaremba

Selmer artist Drew Zaremba enjoys worldwide reputation as an award-winning writer, a passionate conductor, and fiery performer. He has composed and arranged pieces for/performed by the BBC Orchestra, the WDR and NDR Big Bands, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Metropole Orkest, the Airmen of Note, Wycliffe Gordon, Dick Oatts, Randy Brecker, Eddie Gomez, Lee Loughane of “Chicago”, the Vietnam Classical Players, and the Pyramid Jazz Orchestra in Kanazawa, Japan. At the age of 27, Drew joined the faculty of the award-winning University of Northern Colorado (UNC) jazz studies department in 2018 to teach jazz composition and arranging. One of Drew’s most ambitious projects was writing a concert of music entitled “Crossing Chinese Opera with Jazz” during a two month residency in Zhuhai, China. Drew has published music through Alfred Music, Sierra Music, and has self-published over 70 works at his website, drewzaremba.com. Drew was ecstatic to receive the Sammy Nestico Award for his original composition “Kangaroo Bruise Blues” in 2018, which includes a follow-up commission with the elite jazz ensemble, the Airmen of Note. In 2015, Drew was awarded 1st prize of $10,000 in the Sherman/Barsanti Inspiration Award at the University of North Texas (UNT) for his premier concert with his orchestra, the Unity Orchestra, which featured Eddie Gomez. Finally, Drew is proud to be a 3-time Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer winner.

Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine: Tasty Tunes

by Jack Bowers
February 11, 2018

Tasty Tunes is the fifth CD by Ira B. Liss' stalwart San Diego-based Jazz Machine, which was formed almost forty years ago, in 1979--a span that, when reckoned in big-band years, is much closer to a century or more. While other bands have come and gone the Jazz Machine has adamantly stayed the course, presenting dynamic ...