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Ted Piltzecker: Vibes on a Breath
by Jack Bowers
Even though Ted Piltzecker is a splendid vibraphonist and ushers a group of Colorado's leading jazz musicians through its paces on Vibes on a Breath, it is his sparkling arrangements that carry the day on this delightful new album. Several members of Piltzecker's septet double, and he makes the most of that versatility, writing charts that ...
If I Only Had a Brain
Album: Vibes on a Breath
By Ted Piltzecker
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:59
Rene Marie at the new Dazzle
by Geoff Anderson
Rene Marie Dazzle Denver, Colorado August 4, 2023 It's always a joy when singer Rene Marie comes to town. Friday night was special because she opened the new Dazzle nightclub with two sets and two more on Saturday night. Marie lived in Denver for several years and, as one ...
Ari's Funhouse
By Ben Markley
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Birdless; Lyric; Lines of Oppression; Bert's Playground; For Tracy; Arrows and Loops; Green Spleen
Ben Markley Big Band: Ari's Funhouse
by Jack Bowers
Ari's Funhouse, recorded in July 2021, sprang from a chance encounter at a Texas jazz festival in 2019 between New York-based drummer & composer Ari Hoenig and Denver-based pianist & arranger Ben Markley. After performing with Hoenig in a small group, Markley asked if he might score some of Hoenig's songs for a big band. Hoenig ...
Birdless
Album: Ari's Funhouse
By Ben Markley
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 09:49
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John Gunther
John Gunther — Saxophonist • Composer • Multi-Reedist • Educator
John Gunther picked the saxophone in third grade because he liked its shape—and everything since has grown from that lucky choice. He’s now an acclaimed performer, composer, collaborator, and educator whose work moves fluently between jazz, classical, new music, chamber settings, world traditions, and electronics. “In the 21st century, we carry the sum of human music in our pockets,” he says. “Part of our job as artists is to figure out how to process and navigate that.” Gunther draws on jazz, folk, classical, and global “style tributaries,” shaping them with an ear for melody, groove, and narrative.
Bob Washut Dodectet: Journey to Knowhere
by Jack Bowers
Even as experience is often the best teacher, so it is that the teacher often has the most useful experience. Bob Washut, who has been a teacher for roughly four decades, brings that experience and more to bear on Journey to Knowhere, preparing an ambrosial banquet for his twelve-member Dodectet whose main course consists of seven ...
Trickster Tales: John Gunther & the Carpe Diem String Quartet
By John Gunther
Label: John Gunther Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: "Anansi and the Sky God"
The title of the composition comes from the West African folk tale of the trickster spider “Anansi” and his adventures with the Sky God. The piece is in six movements with each movement highlighting both a character in the folktale and a specific African musical instrument or music tradition. The work incorporates non-traditional elements of composition for the string quartet including improvisation and extended instrumental techniques.
I. Anansi goes to Nyame the Sky-God and asks the price for all the stories in the world. (Isicathamiya)
II. Onini the Python (Kora)
III. Mboro the Hornet (Fiddling of Dagbon)
IV. Mmoatia the bad-tempered Fairy (Mbiri)
V. Osebo the Leopard (Gahu drumming)
VI. Anansi delivers his captors to Nyame & is made god of all stories
Also featured on the recording are arrangements of the music of Thelonious Monk including “Monk’s Mood”, “Crepuscule with Nellie”, “Think of One” and “Bye Ya”
