CD Spotlight

Trumpet Madness (2005)

Trumpet Madness, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra

Trumpet Madness features several wonderful trumpeters, as well as the entire Aardvark Orchestra in both solo and collective improvisational roles. Among the trumpeters are music director Mark Harvey, soloing on Taylor Ho Bynum's Concerto for Orchestra and Improviser, Berlin-based trumpeter Rajesh Mehta, featured on Harvey's Spirals which was written especially for Mehta and his percussion collaborator Paul Lovens, and trumpeters Harvey, Ho Bynum, Mehta, Greg Kelley, and Jeanne Snodgrass on the title tune Trumpet Madness, an improvisational tour de force. K.C. Dunbar, Jimmy Leach, and Eric Dahlman round out our trumpetistic panorama as they are heard to advantage on several other tracks on the recording.

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Mark Harvey: Jazz in the Classroom, WGBH Radio PDF Print E-mail

 Friday, September 3, from 8 PM to Midnight
Jazz From Studio Four with host Steve Schwartz

On your radio: WGBH 89.7 FM
 
On the web: http://www.wgbh.org/listen/index.cfm
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May 9: Mary Lou Williams Centennial Celebration: Swing to Sacred... PDF Print E-mail

Geri AllenMary Lou Williams Centennial Celebration:
From Swing to Sacred Music, a Journey of Faith


The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra with Special Guest Geri Allen, Pianist and
Father Peter F. O'Brien, guest narrator
Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Boston College, Robsham Theatre
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA

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Aardvark at the Parmount! PDF Print E-mail

The Aardvrk Jazz Orchestra was invited to help the newly refurbished Paramount Theatre test and calibrate its sound system. The band had a rehearsal there on the evening of March 1st, 2010. Mark Harvey stood in for the vocalists by doing some remarkable scat singing. See the pictures!

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FiLmprov featured at Experimental Intermedia Festival PDF Print E-mail
March 22, 2010
Experimental Intermedia Festival
Screen Compositions 6 curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
including Constellation Suite, a trio of films by Kate Matson with sound collage by composer Forrest Larson
224 Centre Street Loft, New York City
Learn more: http://filmprov.tripod.com/index.html
 
The Reviews are In on AJO's new CD: American Agonistes: Music in Time of War PDF Print E-mail

Aardvark Jazz Orchestra CD American AgonistesAmerican Agonistes: Music in Time of War (Leo Records)
"Beautiful, poignant and raucous. . . This album drips with honesty,
intelligence, sound design, and art." Francois Couture, Billboard.com

"Truly impressive. . . a hit recording." Altrisuoni [Italy]

To read more reviews, find out about the cd tracks, listen to sample MP3 clips, and to order, click the Read more... link below.

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Aardvark by the Book PDF Print E-mail
 Aardvark has received a highly complimentary mention in a brand-new book by composer/educator Graham Collier entitled the jazz composer: moving music off the paper (London: Northway Publications, 2009), p. 124.

Discussing a quartet of international ensembles, including Aardvark, and comparing these with some of the recognized names in today's big band music, Collier writes...
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