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Mike Conrad
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Mike Conrad is a composer, improviser, and teacher from Iowa. He has been recognized for his arranging and composing with four ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards and seven DownBeat Awards, as well as awards and commissions from the Contemporary Music Academy in Beijing, the Bundesjazzorchester of Germany, the West Point Army Jazz Knights, and many other organizations. Conrad’s music has been performed all over the world, including a 2017 concert by the Metropole Orkest in the Netherlands, a 2014 Carnegie Hall Premiere, and a performance at the US Presidential Inauguration in 2013. As a performer, he has toured China, played at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, and appeared at various jazz festivals and venues all over the United States
Mike Conrad's Fertile Soil Suite
By Mike Conrad
Label: Independent Release
Released: 2021
Track listing: Battleground; Ioway; Hog Heaven; Flyover
Flyover
Album: Mike Conrad's Fertile Soil Suite
By Mike Conrad
Label: Independent Release
Released: 2021
Duration: 08:33
David Caffey Jazz Orchestra: All In One
by Jack Bowers
Although it is alluded to only in Kabir Sehgal's informative liner notes, the first four numbers on composer / arranger David Caffey's new CD comprise the All in One Suite, a musical salute to the social, cultural and ethnic diversity that has forever been a hallmark of American society as well as to the frame of ...
New Angle
By Mike Conrad
Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: New Angle, KaBlooz!, To the Summit, Vermilion Skies, What is This Thing Called
Love?, Berceuse, 2020, Uncommon Valor
Cassio Vianna: Infância
by Jack Bowers
As composer / arranger Cassio Vianna was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, an argument could be made that there is rhythm in his genes. The notion is underscored on Infancia, Vianna's debut recording as leader of his well-schooled Jazz Orchestra, a bright and thematic excursion on which the seductive rhythms of his native Brazil ...
All Angles Orchestra: New Angle
by Jack Bowers
There was a time not long ago when most big bands fell more or less into fairly well-defined cubicles. There were, for example, those that were best known as dance bands (Glenn Miller, Harry James, the Dorsey brothers, Artie Shaw, Ray Anthony and so on), and, on the other hand, those whose raison d'etre was jazz ...
University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab Band 1: The Romeo and Juliet Project
by Jack Bowers
The University of Northern Colorado's Lab Band 1 has been a dominant force on the intercollegiate jazz scene for many years, first under director Gene Aitken and more recently Dana Landry whose latest enterprise with the band, The Romeo and Juliet Project, was of course inspired by William Shakespeare's incomparable paean to young love and its ...
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