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The Jazz Session #244: Nicholas Urie
Nicholas Uries new album, My Garden (Red Piano Records, 2011), features his settings of the poems of Charles Bukowski. In this interview, Urie talks about his identification with Bukowski, who, like Urie, spent much of his life in Los Angeles; the challenges of setting Bukowskis non-lyrical poems; and the even greater challenge of getting the rights ...
Nicholas Urie: My Garden
by Mark Corroto
First thoughts of accompanying the poetry of Charles Bukowski to music are predisposed to the techniques of Tom Waits and his post-beatnik circus. Composer/arranger Nicholas Urie takes another path, instead, orchestrating his 12-piece big band towards an alternative rendition and deeper understanding.Like his previous Excerpts From An Online Dating Service (Red Piano, 2009) ,where ...
Excerpts From An Online Dating Service
Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Overture; About Me; Holidaze; Bad Girl; Interlude 1; Wayne; Interlude 2; Cougar Seeks Prey; Afternoon.
Nicholas Urie: Excerpts From An Online Dating Service
by Eyal Hareuveni
Young and gifted American composer/conductor Nicholas Urie had a brilliant idea. Basing his debut suite, Excerpts From An Online Dating Service, on real Internet personal ads collected from cities all over United States and Canada, Urie attempts to transform these coded messages into poetic statements about the current human condition. This is implied by poet and ...
Excerpts From an Online Dating Service
Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Overture; About Me; Holidaze; Bad Girl; Interlude 1; Wayne; Interlude
2; Cougar Seeks Prey; Afternoon.
Large Ensembles: John Hollenbeck & Nicholas Urie
by Kurt Gottschalk
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble Eternal Interlude Sunnyside Records 2009 Nicholas Urie Large Ensemble Excerpts From an Online Dating Service Red Piano 2009 In 1965, Duke Ellington asked the question (by ...
Nicholas Urie Celebrates "Excerpts from an Online Dating Service" on Wed., Nov. 4 at the Brooklyn Lyceum
Join composer Nicholas Urie in concert as he celebrates his highly acclaimed debut CD Excerpts from an Online Dating Service, in concert at 8:00 and 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4 at the Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn. Joining Urie are on winds: Jeremy Udden, Aaron Kriziki, Kenny Pexton, Noah Preminger, and Brian Landrus; on ...
The Jazz Session #74: Nicholas Urie
Listen Nicholas Uries fascinating album, Excerpts From An Online Dating Service (Red Piano, 2009) combines lyrics taken from online dating sites with complex and creative music for a large band. Citing Kurt Weill as a major influence, Urie has made an album that explores what Weill might have been like if he'd had a Facebook account. ...
Large Ensembles: Is There a Place in This Large Music World?
by R.J. DeLuke
The big band in jazz has a long and glorious history. It was a prevalent form in jazz music in the '20s and '30s, comprising a substantial part of America's popular music heard on radio, spun on gramophones and record players, and enjoyed in dance halls. It gave rise to iconic band leaders like Fletcher Henderson, ...
Nicholas Urie Large Ensemble: Excerpts from an Online Dating Service
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non manca certo il coraggio, a Nicholas Urie, giovane compositore (24 anni) di Los Angeles. Coraggiosa è infatti la scelta di realizzare il proprio album d'esordio con una big band. E coraggiosa è anche l'idea intorno a cui ruota questo progetto. Come indicato dal titolo, l'album mette in musica testi tratti da siti internet di annunci ...
