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Greg Yasinitsky, saxophonist and composer, leader of the YAZZ Band, winner of the American Prize for Composition, has hundreds of pubiished musical works, which are performed in over forty countries world-wide, and is a recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Commission Project of New York, Meet the Composer West, ASCAP, Artist Trust, Washington State Music Teachers Association (WSMTA) and the Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA). Yasinitsky has written music especially for David Sanborn, Clark Terry, David Liebman, Sean Jones, Tia Fuller, Jeff Coffin and the USAF “Airmen of Note” big band

Album

New Normal

By Greg Yasinitsky

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: G.P.; Song for Laura; Blues for Brecker; Blues for a King; New Normal; Diva; Synergetic; Hangtown Fry.

Album

Deviate from Standards

By David Larsen

Label: Larsenjazz Productions
Released: 2021
Track listing: A New Thing Comin'; Smoke Screen; Augmented Reality; Family; He Who Getz the Last Laugh; See You at 8; Into the Light; Into the Mild; Tensai

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with David Larsen

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2021

Meet David Larsen David Larsen is a saxophonist, composer, and educator. He has performed with a variety of artists including Ken Peplowski, Francisco Torres, Dave Glenn, Ron Vincent, Bill Mays, Dean Johnson, and the internationally acclaimed jazz vocalist Halie Loren. Recently, Larsen appears on the Origin Records release New Normal (2021) by Greg Yasinitsky and was ...

Article: Album Review

Greg Yasinitsky YAZZ Band: New Normal

Read "New Normal" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 18, 2021

As one good album clearly deserves another, Greg Yasinitsky, who wears many hats—composer, arranger, woodwind specialist and educator among them—has released New Normal, the second impressive outing by his admirable Washington state-based ensemble, the YAZZ Band, which varies in size from septet to tentet. Unlike Yasinitsky's earlier album, YAZZ Band, which was recorded basically in one ...

Song of the Day

G.P.

January 8, 2021

Album: New Normal
By Greg Yasinitsky
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 08:10

Album

YAZZ Band

By Greg Yasinitsky

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Serpentine; New York Confidential; True North; Sideways; Full Blown; Gator Tail; Partial Eclipse; Missing You; One-Two-Three.

Article: Album Review

Greg Yasinitsky: YAZZ Band

Read "YAZZ Band" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 28, 2018

You're right, Greg Yasinitsky isn't a household name--apart from his own household, that is, and perhaps a handful of others in and around Pullman, WA, where Yasinitsky serves as professor of music and coordinator of Jazz Studies at Washington State University. And while his impressive debut album as overseer of the well-spoken YAZZ Band may not ...