Sharp Nine Class of 2001 - On the Loose - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

During the Jazz Age, some of the most important musical developments in the United States occurred on college campuses. A generation of musicians came up with the then-adolescent music, helping to shape it's sounds and it's direction. While many college jazz bands ended at graduation, some, like those of Ted Weems, Fred Waring, Rudy Vallee, and Hoagy Carmichael went on to have lasting careers and lasting impacts. Now, Rivermont presents America's premier collegiate early jazz band, the Original Cornell Syncopators, and their tribute to campus jazz InchCollegiate.Inch Led by Grammy-nominated researcher, historian, and cornetist Colin Hancock, the InchSyncsInch (as they are known on campus) dive into the wide variety of jazz-flavored music generated by American college bands. From ragtime to the beginnings of swing, the 20 tracks on this disc represent a wide range of bands, schools, and regional sounds. The 40-page booklet with notes by Colin Hancock and Hannah Krall with Bryan S. Wright features detailed and entertaining research on the collegiate jazz scene of the Roaring '20s, including the first in-depth look at jazz at Historically Black Colleges and Universities during the music's earliest years. 20 tracks. 60 minutes.

Working with forces unknown to me has always been an exciting challenge,Inch says Elliott Sharp, Inchespecially when those forces are in the form of younger musicians, highly skilled and enthusiastic.Inch For his work with the musicians of the Veni Academy, he chose three previously composed works that would be easily adaptable to a large ensemble whose instrumentation was not the result of prior design plus one newly composed for the occasion. The chosen pieces were based on well-defined processes that made use of instant decision-making on the part of both the players and the conductor, and finally, some graphic notation. Composed in 2003 for string quartet, The Dispersion of Seeds uses a simple algorithm of arpeggiation of nine chords throughout it's arc to create shifting verticalities. The piece would be different with every performance yet would retain it's distinct identity. The composition Flexagons is based on permutations of composed fragments ordered in time with instructions on how to flex and fold them. Augmenting the flex is the possibility of players Inchpopping outInch with short improvised statements that may be acted upon by the other players and thereby revealing another facet. The Hidden Variable is a suite of graphic scores originally conceived for solo guitar using Inchalternate bowsInch to generate sounds on the guitar. Palimpsest was composed for the occasion and a world premiere. Historically, a palimpsest manuscript could be reused by scraping or erasing the text. While the removal of the original texts might be quite thorough, elements of the original items might still be evident, whether explicitly or subliminally, creating a Inchpalimpsest.Inch Here Sharp's Inchoriginal textsInch are sample measures taken from previous scores, compiled as raw materials in this new work, superimposed on the now-erased substrate, the Inchmanuscript.

Latcho Drom - Live 2001 [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/09/2011