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| The Big Band Theory at Merkin Hall After a year-long monthly residence at NYC's famous Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bandagrande Big Band joins Jazz Camerata to explore some of music's purest forms, from Bach to Shostakovich to Hermeto Pascoal, to Bill Evans… up to innovative contemporary originals. Please join, on May 9th, 8PM,, some of the city's best Jazz and classic instrumentalists while they give their best to bring this ideal world to our side of the event horizon… pure Big Band Swingularity in one of New York's most beautiful concert venues, Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center. A repertoire spanning 4 centuries, re-voiced through the sound-canvas of the traditional 18-piece Big Band and a muscular string-ensemble. Colombian star-harpist Edmar Castañeda premieres a dedicated Concert for Harp, Big Band and String Ensemble. J. S. Bach's Erbarme Dich, from St. Matthews Passion will reveal a whole new set of dimensions through a revolutionary Big Band arrangement backing up Brenda Feliciano's immaculate voice, while masterfully counter-pointed by trumpet-virtuoso Joe Burgstaller. Established icons like bass-magician John Benitez (Chick Corea, John Scofield, Eddie Palmieri, et. al.), vibraphone-prodigy Christos Rafalides(Wynton Marsalis, Mingus Big Band, et. al.), percussion-powerhouseSamuel Torres (Richard Bona, Arturo Sandoval, et.al.), Vince Cherico, one of the most requested drummers in the New York Jazz scene form the rhythmic core of this revolutionary project, providing a harmonic-rhythmical canvas for their own virtuosic improvisation as well as for a whole sonic universe of strings, woodwind, brass and vocal painting-strokes, with up and coming stars like Alex Han, Chelsea Baratz, David de Jesus on sax, trombonists Chris Washburne, Andy Hunter, Rafi Makiel, lead-trumpet legend John Walsh and colleagues Eddie Allen, Steve Gluzband who have made an important mark of their own... Add to the mix a string ensemble of accomplished Jazz and Latin players under the guidance of Venezuelan maestro, violist Samuel Marchán and you'll get the ideal of ALL worlds as predicted in the Big Band Theory... BANDAGRANDE: Edmar Castañeda (harp) Brenda Feliciano (alto) Joe Burgstaller (trumpet) John Benitez (bass) Vince Cherico (drums) Samuel Torres (percussion) Christos Rafalides (vibes) Alex Han, Louis Fouché (a. sax) Chelsea Baratz, Alejandro Aviles (t. sax), Chris Washburne, Andy Hunter, Rafi Makiel, Alvin Walker (trombones) John Walsh, Eddie Allen, Julie Desbordes, Mike Rodriguez (trumpets) Enrique Fernandez (Bar. Sax) Samuel Marchan (Viola) Hector Martignon (piano, accordion, conductor) Personnel and Program subject to change. New York based, Colombian pianist Hector Martignon has composed, orchestrated, produced, performed and recorded music in a wide spectrum of genres, from classical to jazz and world music, to rock and pop. His five albums as a leader and two as co-leader (Mozart's Blue Fantasies and Bach's Secret Files) as well as his collaboration on over a hundred albums, scores for five feature films, three Broadway Musicals and multiple other projects, showcase his wide-ranging area of expertise. After several nominations as a sideman, two of his five solo CDs (Refugee, 2008, and Second Chance, 2010) were both nominated for a GRAMMY Award. He arranged and performed parts of the score of Ang Lee's Oscar-nominated movie Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. His first professional recording was at age 18 (Mikis Theodorakis's Canto General) while one of the most recent was on legendary rock band Chicago's latest production, the Latin-tinged Exitos. He has written symphonic orchestrations, performed and recorded by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and compositions like the one commissioned and premiered by the Musica de Camara String Orchestra at St. Patrick's Cathedral in April 2011.As a requested sideman he has toured the world with such greats as Paquito D'Rivera, Ray Barretto, Gato Barbieri, Steve Turre, Don Byron, Tito Puente. He was featured pianist with Max Roach's "Project America" at the 92 St Y. write your comments about the article :: © 2012 Jazz News :: home page |