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School Of Music Graduate Ensemble: Mars Apes

by Hrayr Attarian
The Philadelphia based University of Arts is famous for the excellence of its school of music and particularly the high caliber of its jazz education. Listening to the whimsically titled Mars Apes, it becomes clear that these accolades are not undeserved. Billed as School Of Music Graduate Ensemble, the group performs mostly original ...
At This Time

By Norman David
Label: CoolCraft
Released: 2011
Track listing: 1. Nor-Bop
2. Tuesday Overture
3. Line-up
4. Vicinity
5. Random Orders
6. Quick, Change!
7. It's Complicated
8. At This Time
9. Secret Love (Fain & Webster)
10. Going Way Up
Rick Lawn’s Power of Ten Little Big Band: Earth Tones

by Victor L. Schermer
Rick Lawn's Power of Ten Little Big BandEarth TonesSelf Produced2011The little" big band format, an ensemble that may range from seven to 11 instrumentalists, gives the leader/arranger/composer--in this case the multi-faceted reed player Rick Lawn--a chance to finely craft the music and bring in players who are equally ...
Norman David Eleventet: Philadelphia, PA May 27, 2011

by Victor L. Schermer
Norman David Eleventet Little Bar Philadelphia, PAMay 27, 2011 With the closing of Zanzibar Blue and Ortlieb's Jazzhaus, Philadelphia has lost two of its iconic jazz clubs, further diluting an already limited constellation of venues. So it's encouraging to see music coordinators Greg Matthews and Mike Boone taking up some of ...
Tuesday Overture

Album: At This Time
By Norman David
Label: CoolCraft
Released: 2011
Duration: 6:48
Stan Kenton Orchestra - DePaul University Jazz Ensemble / Captain Black Big Band / Washington State University

by Jack Bowers
Stan Kenton Orchestra / DePaul University Jazz EnsembleDouble Feature, Vol. 1Tantara Productions2010 Some of us are old enough to remember double features, but they were in movie theatres, not concert halls or recording studios, and, as memory serves, were never quite as enchanting or memorable as this ...