Jeff Fairbanks' Project Hansori at Tea Lounge

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Jeff Fairbanks' Project Hansori (formerly Jeff Fairbanks Jazz Orchestra) plays the original Asian folk-influenced music of award-winning composer Jeff Fairbanks. This 17-piece Jazz orchestra will play music from their eagerly awaited debut album "Mulberry Street", which won an American Music Center recording grant, and will be released in June by Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records. The band features many notable Jazz musicians, such as Linda Oh, Sebastian Noelle, and Sam Burtis. Hansori means "one sound" in Korean, and depicts Fairbanks' vision of combining music of different cultures into one setting....

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"Sophisticated and artful" Queensbuzz.com


Jeff Fairbanks' Project Hansori (formerly Jeff Fairbanks Jazz Orchestra) plays the original Asian folk-influenced music of award-winning composer Jeff Fairbanks. This 17-piece Jazz orchestra will play music from their eagerly awaited debut album "Mulberry Street", which won an American Music Center recording grant, and will be released in June by Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records. The band features many notable Jazz musicians, such as Linda Oh, Sebastian Noelle, and Sam Burtis. Hansori means "one sound" in Korean, and depicts Fairbanks' vision of combining music of different cultures into one setting.


Jeff has won a number of awards for composing, including the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, BMI Charlie Parker Award, runner-up for the IAJE Gil Evans Fellowship, and recognition from the NY Youth Symphony. He has also received a handful of grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and the American Music Center. His music has been performed at the Montreux, Vienne, Umbria, and North Sea Jazz festivals, Merkin Concert Hall, and at IAJE conferences, among other venues.


Band personnel for 4/18/11:

Leader, composer, trombone: Jeff Fairbanks

Woodwinds: Rob Mosher, tba, Michael Webster, Candace DeBartolo, Paul Nedzela

Trumpets: Dan Urness, Colin Brigstocke, Jason Wiseman, tba

Trombones: Matthew McDonald, Sam Burtis, tba, Jennifer Wharton

Rhythm section: Sebastian Noelle (gtr), Francesca Han (pno), Linda Oh (bass), Bryson Kern (drm)


Band website: www.reverbnation.com/jefffairbanks

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