Results for "George McMullen"

George McMullen

Grammy award winning, professional Trombone player and recorded artist on Trombone, Bass Trombone, Flute and Didjeridoo. Experienced in Rock, Pop, Jazz and Latin Jazz, from small, intimate venues to large arenas, including Woodstock '99 and the Walt Disney Concert Hall and many taped appearances for television. Experienced studio musician for Film, Television, Music CD’s, and Commercial Jingles. University Faculty Member, Artist in Residence, Master Classes. See more at www.georgemcmullen.com

Boomerang.

By George McMullen

Label: PfMentum Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Boomerang; Follow the Bouncing Ball; Improv I: Earth Mystery; I Loved Her Laugh; The Open Gate; Improv II: Air Currents; Geonomic Preview; Waiting; Improv III: Prairie Wind; Dirty Stinking Lowdown Cryin' Shame; Improv IV: Fire, Dancing.

George McMullen Trio: Boomerang.

by Maurizio Zerbo
May 17, 2019

É tanto affascinante la sonorità scura del trombone, quanto sempre più rari i musicisti che ci si dedicano. È pertanto degno di attenzione questo bel cd di George McMullen, più volte vincitore di un Grammy Awards. Insieme a quattro libere improvvisazioni, sette composizioni originali del leader impreziosiscono le vorticose trame di una avvincente proposta, in bilico ...

Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra: Farewell

by Dave Wayne
December 8, 2015

I am beginning to wonder if every jazz musician has, in some dark corner of their psyche, a suppressed ambition to lead a big band. Economically unfeasible, logistically impossible--but artistically gratifying--a big band is perhaps the ultimate way to make manifest one's greatest musical ambitions. You get to conduct, pick your own solos, compose and arrange ...

Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra: Artistry

by Jack Bowers
July 24, 2013

On Artistry, the Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra pays homage to one of Richmond's former employers, the legendary Stan Kenton, not by rehashing music performed by the Kenton Orchestra--no matter how forward-leaning that may have been--but rather by renovating a few themes associated with Kenton (and quite a few others that weren't) in the manner in ...

Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?

by Jack Bowers
June 14, 2013

Betty and I returned to Albuquerque on Memorial Day after attending Swingin' on a Riff, the latest in a series of marvelous semi-annual events presented by Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute for more than twenty years at venues in and around L.A. This one was held May 23-26 at the Los Angeles Marriott ...

Daren Burns Releases First Solo Album "Fear Is Not The Natural State Of Civilized People” On Urban Nerds Records, Features Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.

July 10, 2012

Bassist, composer and educator Daren Burns (John “Drumbo” French of Captain Beefheart) has released Fear is not the Natural State of Civilized People, on Urban Nerds Records, a label Burns founded in 2009. Burns’ first solo album of original instrumental material, this intense and expressive 4-part suite realizes a creative path that began in 2006. The ...

The Vinny Golia Octet: Music for Baritone Saxophone

by Robert Bush
July 1, 2011

Vinny Golia OctetMusic For Baritone SaxophoneNine Winds Records2011 Woodwind multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia has been both the beacon and a touchstone for the West Coast free improvising community, particularly in Los Angeles, for over 30 years. Golia started his Nine Winds label in 1977, as a vehicle for ...

Daren Burns' Onibaba to play Tophest 2011, a benefit to help LA Musician Chris Spilsbury, March 25th

March 12, 2011

Daren Burns ensemble, Onibaba is slated to play Tophest 2011, a benefit to help LA musician Christopher Spilsbury raise funds to pay his medical expenses for a car accident he was involved in last December 2010. Also appearing that night will be Los Angeles jazz musicians, Otmaro Ruiz and Joe LaBarbera and DJ Christoforo LaBarbera. Onibaba ...