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Crescent Super Band

Active since: 2000

The Crescent Super Band comprises many of the nation's most acclaimed jazz musicians, ages 15–18. DownBeat Magazine has repeatedly named the 20-piece group the best youth jazz ensemble and top big band in the world with 28 Utah Best of State Awards (Best Professional Band, Best Vocal/Instrumental Group, Best Rock/Blues Soloist, Best Youth Performing Group), 2 Utah Best of State Statue Awards for Arts & Entertainment, and 22 prestigious DownBeat Magazine Awards.

The band has worked with many of the biggest names in music, including members of The Killers, Toto, Journey, AC/DC, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Saturday Night Live Band, and jazz legends like Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Trombone Shorty, Herbie Hancock, Randy Brecker, and others. However, one of the crowning performances of the band's career was their headlining debut at Carnegie Hall in May of 2013.

Multi-Grammy Artists Randy Brecker, Eumir Deodato And Tom Scott Featured On New Album By Drummer Isaiah Stewart

July 12, 2018

Jazz-funk drummer and worldwide recording artist Isaiah Stewart announces the release of his fifth album Summer Beat, which features trumpeter Randy Brecker, keyboardist Eumir Deodato and saxophonist Tom Scott. Summer Beat is currently available at CDBaby, iTunes, Amazon and all other popular online retail and music-streaming services worldwide. About Randy Brecker One of the most respected ...

Corey Christiansen: Factory Girl

by Dan McClenaghan
May 22, 2016

Guitarist Corey Christiansen began his stint at Origin Records in 2008 with a top notch organ jazz outing, Roll With It. He followed that with an equally engaging disc featuring the same players, Outlaw Tractor on the label in 2010. On these two dates, Christensen and his superb band worked the soul jazz groove typical of ...

Russell Schmidt: Anachromysticism

by C. Michael Bailey
July 18, 2013

Pianist/composer Russell Schmidt takes acoustic jazz right to the edge of where it is supposed to be. Intelligent, melodic, and harmonically grounded, Schmidt's sound is fresh and invigorating. Schmidt is a faculty member at the School of Music, University of Utah. Anachromysticism is his second recording, following 2007's Season Of Change (Orchard Records). Where Season Of ...

David Halliday Band Featuring Angela Bingham at Jeanne Wagner Theatre in Salt Lake City

March 30, 2009

David Halliday is known as one of the finest saxophonists in the Mountain West and has performed in virtually every venue the area has to offer. Halliday makes his long overdue headlining concert debut at the Jeanne Wagner Theatre on May 2 at 7:30pm with a quartet comprised of Utah's finest jazz musicians: Dan Waldis on ...

Sundance 2009: Films in Competition

December 4, 2008

Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah is reeving up. Here is a list of this years films in competition. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION This year's 16 films were selected from 879 submissions. Each film is a world premiere. The films screening in Documentary Competition are: Art & Copy (Director: Doug Pray; Screenwriter: Timothy ...

Smooth Jazz Artists Get Music Airplay Plus Your Music on Itunes, E - Music, Sony Connect, Napster and Ringtone Sales

October 3, 2008

Cimplex Music Studios is a Utah based talent agency that currently offers artists access to digital music marketing on the internet as well airplay on our online radio station. Get your music played on The Que 98.2 internet radio station, which airs in high quality digital audio over the web, from 8AM to 12 Midnight, Mountain ...