Big Bands On The Edge, Video 1: "Monk" by Darrell Katz.m4v

In 1989 at the Emerson Majestic Theatre in Boston, I produced a concert called "Big Bands On The Edge." The bands were: the Either/Orchestra (Russ Gershon, leader), Orange Then Blue (George Schuller, leader) and Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra (Darrell Katz and Ken Schaphorst, leaders). Also featured was alto sax soloist Julius Hemphill. This track was released on the JCAO cd "Dreamland," available at jazzcomposersalliance.org. It was written and conducted by Darrell Katz.

If you check out the list of musicians below, you will see many people you recognize. (Notes by Stephen Provizer).

Trumpets:
Tom Halter, John Carlson, John Allmark, Diego Urcola, Ken Cervenka, Dave Balou, John Carlson, Mark Taylor

Trombones:
Gary Valente, Peter Cirelli, Russell Jewell, Curtis Hasselbring, Bob Pilkington, Joshua Roseman

French Horn:
Marshall Sealy, Mark Taylor

Tuba:
Jim Odell

Reeds:
Matt Darriau, Stan Strickland, Allan Chase, Russ Gershon, Charlie Kohlhase, Bob Zung, Chris Cheeks, Rob Scheps, Jay Brandford, Douglas Yates

Keyboards:
Tim Ray, John Medeski

Bass:
Paul Del Nero, Michael Rivard, Wesley Wirth

Drums:
George Schuller, Jerome Dupree, Ron Savage

Vibes:
Mike Noonan

Guitar:
John Dirac, Ben Sher

Percussion:
Sa Davis, Jerry Leake

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Either Orchestra
• Orange Then Blue
• Julius Hemphill
• Monk. big band

[stinging]

Second player is Rob Scheps, Great player.

[stinging]

Great players in this ensemble...

[tonyfreejazz20]

Thanks Stinging.

[tonyfreejazz20]

@stinging

who is the second sax player?

[tonyfreejazz20]

AWESOME....this big band rocks...love tjhe sax solo

[trianna11]

Darreell - thanks so much for sharing this video with me - It was awesome to see Julius in a performance I remember so very well.

All the best, Cynthia