The Morchestra at California Jazz Conservatory

About

While recent shows have featured special guests, this time out we feature the band qua band, so you can hear these people stretch out playing atmospheric originals, big band funk, Morchified standards and Brazilian jewels. The Morchestra is a Berkeley-based jazz orchestra that plays big band jazz filtered through half-vast musical midden that is the mind of arranger and composer Tony Corman, a mid-century East-Coaster long resident in the Bay Area. The players in the band are Bay Area stalwarts, fine professionals all, and the material is a rich mix of standards. The spirit is one of sophisticated fun, enjoyable for both the deeply initiated jazz listener and civilians who simply love music in all its positive manifestations.