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Jacob Varmus
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Being pushed in a pram along the banks of La Scala in 1976 the two-year old Jacob Varmus suddenly emitted squeals and shrieks of unmasked delight. The most rapturous sounds he'd ever heard were bouncing off the plaza stone: a lone trumpeter's warming up from within open stage doors at the local opera house. Ten years later Jacob Varmus had a trumpet of his own and began winning top marks at all the California Music Educators' Association festivals for his work as soloist (Haydn's trumpet concerto and Goedicke's Concert Etude) and chamber musician. Evolving parallel to his love of music was an interest and talent in using language artistically thru poetry, critical essays, and autobiographical stories
Aegean
By Jacob Varmus
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Elma; Areti; Phineas; Lily; Nidal; Zeina; Lyra (Live); Apostolos & Stelios (Live); Selena; Elma (Live); Lyra (Studio).
Jacob Varmus Septet: Aegean
by Dan Bilawsky
The existence of this album is firm proof that you never know just when or how a benefactor can come into view. Lifelong jazz fan Apostolos Georgopoulos was passing through upstate New York and he had the opportunity to spend a weekend with Connie Casey and Harold Varmus. Upon hearing some music at their home that ...
Terminal Stillness
By Jacob Varmus
Label: Crows' Kin Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Terminal; Stillness; Union; Departure; Ju-Ju; Avenue C; Slide Rules; Myanmar Shadow; Before Dawn.
Jacob Varmus: Terminal Stillness
by Dan Bilawsky
Jazz is always caught up in the idea of looking forward or backwards, but whatever happened to the idea of looking around? Much ado about movement--toward the future, the past, the next chord in the progression or the next stage of a career--often gets in the way of the simple act of creation. The jazz community, ...
All The Things We Still Can Be
By Jacob Varmus
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: Ecstatic Little Porpoises; All The Things We Still Can Be; Untimely Instrusion; Everything Happens To Me; Country Dave Tex Mex; What Is This Thing We Still Can Be?; Why Don't You Dance?; Perpetual Motion.
Jacob Varmus: All the Things We Still Can Be
by Dan McClenaghan
Some influences are readily apparent on trumpeter Jacob Varmus' debut disc, All the Things We Still Can Be, especially Chet Baker and Miles Davis, circa mid-'50s to mid-'60s. The set opens with a buoyant Varmus original, “Ecstatic Little Porpoises." Varmus' tone is warm and round and a bit soft-tufted, like Baker's, as he blows a bright ...
Jacob Varmus: All The Things We Still Can Be
by Michael P. Gladstone
On Jacob Varmus' debut recording he proves to be an exciting trumpeter, composer and bandleader. Hailing from San Francisco by way of the University of Iowa, Varmus originally planned to be a poet but was also drawn to the music of jazz trumpeters, of whom Chet Baker and Woody Shaw were early favorites. He has worked ...
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