Michael Zilber East West - Music for Big Bands, West Coast CD Release. One complimentary CD (signed on request) included with ticket purchase! Composer-Saxophonist Zilber's musical approach as a player and as a writer has always been a unique mix of his New York and West Coast roots. For his latest Origin Records release, he has assembled top big bands in New York and San Francisco. Each band recorded 7 songs, carefully picked to represent the New York and West Coast sides of his musical personality. The 14 arrangements are 8 originals and 6 arrangements of classic songs, including Joshua, Fall, Skylark and Somewhere Over The Rainbow...
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Michael Zilber East West - Music for Big Bands, West Coast CD Release. One complimentary CD (signed on request) included with ticket purchase! Composer-Saxophonist Zilber's musical approach as a player and as a writer has always been a unique mix of his New York and West Coast roots. For his latest Origin Records release, he has assembled top big bands in New York and San Francisco. Each band recorded 7 songs, carefully picked to represent the New York and West Coast sides of his musical personality. The 14 arrangements are 8 originals and 6 arrangements of classic songs, including Joshua, Fall, Skylark and Somewhere Over The Rainbow. This West Coast CD Release features truly the cream of the Bay Area Jazz Crop, including Erik Jekabson, Mike Olmos, Jeff Marrs, Jeff Cressman, Dann Zinn, Kasey Knudsen, John Gove, Jeff Masanari and many others. Don't miss Zilber's 12th release as a leader and first release of big band music by the man hailed by Jazz Master David Liebman as "one of the best composers and players around anywhere. Period" and about whom All About Jazz's Paul Rauch says "Zilber is one of the true masters of modern jazz saxophone, his prodigious talents evidenced by his recordings and live performances are truth." Band Members and Instrumentation: Alto 1 Kasey Knudsen; Alto 2 Larry Delacruz; Tenor 1 Michael Zilber; Tenor 2 Dann Zinn; Bari sax Rob Sudduth; Trumpet 1 Marvin McFadden; Trumpet 2 Mike Olmos; Trumpet 3 Max Miller-Moran; Trumpet 4 Erik Jekabson; Tbn 1 Jeff Cressman; Tbn 2 John Gove; Tbn 3 Patrick Malabuyo; Bass Tbn Rich Lee; Piano John R Burr; Bass Dan Feiszli; Drums Jeff Marrs; Guitar Jeff Masanari. Bios: San Francisco Bay Area based saxophonist and composer Michael Zilber is described by NEA Jazz Master David Liebman as Òone of the best players and composers around anywhere. Period!Ó The Canadian-born ex-New Yorker has 11 albums to his name as a leader or co-leader. He has performed and/or recorded with many jazz luminaries over the years, from Liebman to Miroslav Vitous, Mike Clark, Steve Smith and Bob Berg, to name just a very few. Says ALL ABOUT JAZZ, ÒZilber is one of the true masters of modern jazz saxophone, his prodigious talents evidenced by his recordings and live performances are truth.Ó Zilber co-led a band with drumming great Steve Smith for eight years, releasing the top 20 recording Reimagined: Jazz Standards, Volume 1 in 2003. For the past decade, he has teamed up with guitar virtuoso John Stowell, most recently on 2016Õs Basement Blues, which All About JazzÕs Dan McClenaghan calls Òas compelling and modernistic and compelling as any group out there,Ó hailing Zilber as Òsoulful and flawlessÓ. Their 2015 Origin Records recording Live Beauty, made DownBeat magazineÕs Òbest of the yearÓ list for 2015, as well as garnering rave reviews from JazzTimes and All About Jazz. This was a follow-up to the groupÕs Shot Through With Beauty, which NPR jazz critic Andrew Gilbert picked as a top 10 record of the year. On Turning Ten: The Billy Collins Project, providing musical settings for the American Poet LaureateÕs poems, was hailed by famed jazz journalist Bill Milkowski as a Òwork of art of the highest order.Ó Zilber currently leads his ÒOriginals for the OriginalsÓ project, with an 2017 Origin album release of the same name featuring high-profile sidemen Dave Kikoski, James Genus and Clarence Penn. The CD has received numerous rave reviews, and, as ALL ABOUT JAZZÕs Paul Rauch opines ÒOriginals For the Originals is a top 10 of 2017 candidate without a doubt.Ó Zilber also leads a project called Weather Wayne, his electric jazz homage to Wayne Shorter, recently playing to a sold out house at SFJAZZ. Zilber is also a part of numerous other projects, both here and in New York including playing lead tenor and writing for the SF-based and widely acclaimed Electric Squeezebox Orchestra. In Berkeley, California, he leads the multiple DownBeat award-winning Jazzschool Jazz Workshop, as well as teaching composition and ensembles at the California Jazz Conservatory. Zilber holds a Doctorate in composition from NYU.
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