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big band & nonets
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big band & nonets ///
Dedicated to all the women and female-presenting in my life, from family to friends to colleagues, past, present, and future.
“Las Mujeres de la Familia Buendía” was inspired by the lineage of women in the family, blood-related or intertwined, who struggled, sacrificed, and bloomed through each generation, passing on the good and bad of everything they lived through to the next leaders of women in the family.
The lineage/Soloists:
Chris Bauer - ALTO SAX /// Chris Ferrari - TENOR SAX /// Coleman Rose - TENOR SAX /// Lawson Gardner - TROMBONE /// Jonah Hieb - TRUMPET /// Jun Hee Park - PIANO /// Cookie Stephenson - BASS /// Adam Wacks - DRUMS
A dramatic swingin’ re-imagining of what it was like when my siblings, cousins, and I would play the swimming pool game “Marco Polo” when we were little. It was as intense and competitive and exciting as the story the band recites.
The players of the game/Soloists:“Marco…” - Sparni - VIBES“Polo!” - Miles Mindlin - GUITARThe water - Cookie Stephenson - BASS
What began as a lullaby I would sing to myself during stressful months became the vessel for this happy-go-lucky song for the joyful singer.
The happy-go-lucky souls/Soloists
Davide Sgarra - BARI /// Miles Mindlin - GUITAR /// Kayla Arthur - VOX
Inspired by a friend’s stomach bug illness, this is perhaps the most fun I’ve had writing and conducting a big band tune :).
P.S. - she’s feeling much much better
The bugs & cells/Soloists
Ian Weidmann - ALTO SAX /// Bruno Tzinas - TROMBONE /// Coleman Rose & Chris Ferrari - TENOR SAX CONVERSATION /// Adam Wacks - DRUMS