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Red Bank Jazz Orchestra

Joe Muccioli

Born: December 11, 1956

Joe Muccioli is an internationally known conductor, orchestrator, musicologist, and producer. Muccioli is the founder and artistic director of the non-profit Jazz Arts Project, Inc., and its flagship ensemble, the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra, an all-star lineup of the finest jazz musicians in the NY/NJ metropolitan area.  For 12 years, he was conductor and music director for Actor/Entertainer Joe Piscopo, with performances in Atlantic City as well as touring the US and abroad.  Muccioli has presented many heralded performances bridging the gulf between European-influenced concert music, symphonic presentations, and classic jazz rooted in the American tradition. He has conducted major symphonies and jazz orchestras throughout the world, including the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, the BBC Big Band, the Wuppertal Symphony (Germany), the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK and the Adelaide Symphony in Australia. He has been featured on TV and radio broadcasts including NPR, the BBC in the UK, SVT in Sweden, and all over northern Europe, and the WDR in Germany.

Red Bank Jazz Orchestra: Strike Up The Band!

By Red Bank Jazz Orchestra

Label: Hip City Jazz
Released: 2012
Track listing: "Strike Up the Band"; "Such Sweet Thunder"; "The Mooche"; "After You've Gone"; "Moanin'"; "Baby Won't You Please Come Home"; "Smile"; "I Believe in You"; "The Kind From Red Bank"; "Us"; "I'll Never Smile Again"; "Come Fly With Me"; "One O'clock Jump".

Red Bank Jazz Orchestra: Red Bank Jazz Orchestra: Strike Up The Band!

by Craig Dowd
June 30, 2012

With the sheer number of ghost bands and regional orchestras currently active in America, many of which hold fast to the grave of sophisticated pre-war swing, the supply of tributes to our finest composers is never in jeopardy of being exhausted. But volume breeds vapidness, and most offerings to this province, with their prosaic interpretations and ...