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| Wayne Alpern is back with him most ambitious creation Frankenstein Wayne Alpern Frankenstein Henri Elkan Music Street Date: August 6, 2021 WAYNE ALPERN'S LATEST CREATION FRANKENSTEIN FUSES SOME OF THE MOST WELL-CRAFTED SONGS AND SONGWRITERS INTO ONE RECORDING. MUCH MORE THAN RAMBLINGS OF A MADMAN. THIS LATEST ENDEAVOR FEATURES A MIX OF VETERAN JAZZERS AND UP AND COMING ONES TO WATCH. Featuring: David Mann: reeds (all tracks) John Patitucci: bass (all tracks) Clint DeGanon: drums (all tracks) Andy Ezrin: keyboards (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) Tatum Greenblatt: trumpet (2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11) Brad Mason: trumpet (1, 4, 5, 6 ) Mike Boscarino: trombone (1, 4, 5, 6) Mike Davis: trombone (2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11) Kevin Ramessar: guitar (10, 11) I do not record the ramblings of a madman. Some miracle may have produced this, yet the stages of its evolution were distinct. After trials and tribulations, I discovered the cause of generation; nay, more, I became capable of regeneration itself. I was like Sinbad, buried with the dead, who stumbled upon a passageway to life. Assembling my materials — bits of brawn and brains and bones dug up from the dirt — I dreamt some new species, reconstructed and revived, might some day bless me as its creator. My hands trembling, I looked down: blink — it was alive! — Wayne Alpern, after Mary Shelley WAYNE ALPERN is a New York City composer, arranger, and scholar who integrates popular and jazz idioms with classical techniques and repertoire to create a sophisticated contemporary style of cross-genre, or even post-genre music. After years of composing complex new music, he embraced his personal history and indigenous musical culture and fused them with his classical background and training. His work includes numerous jazz arrangements, string quartets, woodwind and brass quintets, mixed ensembles, pieces for string orchestra, and several piano works. Alpern's innovative compositions, recompositions, and rearrangements have been performed and recorded by distinguished artists from diverse musical traditions. A native of Detroit immersed in the Motown sound, he studied at Oberlin College, University of Michigan, Yale University, and City University of New York, with additional work at Harvard, Juilliard, Wesleyan, and University of Pennsylvania. His musical scholarship and theoretical expertise focuses on Schenkerian analysis and 20th-century music. He holds a law degree from Yale Law School and practiced civil litigation for nearly twenty years. He taught at Mannes College of Music, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Cardozo Law School, worked at General Music Publishing, United Artists Music Publishing, and was Steve Reich's editor. He is President and owner of Henri Elkan Music Publishing, Inc. and a lifetime member of the Society for Music Theory and American Musicological Society. He has lectured extensively in North America, Europe, and Russia. In his capacity as Founder and Director of the internationally acclaimed Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, Alpern received the highly coveted Society for Music Theory Honorary Lifetime Membership Award recognizing his "substantial and longstanding accomplishments distinguishing the recipient and our discipline through his many good works on behalf of his fellow scholars and students of music theory for our collective benefit." PLAYERS: David Mann: reeds (all tracks) John Patitucci: bass (all tracks) Clint DeGanon: drums (all tracks) Andy Ezrin: keyboards (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) Tatum Greenblatt: trumpet (2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11) Brad Mason: trumpet (1, 4, 5, 6 ) Mike Boscarino: trombone (1, 4, 5, 6) Mike Davis: trombone (2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11) Kevin Ramessar: guitar (10, 11) TRACKS AND TIMES: 1.You've Got A Friend (Carole King) 5:50 2.Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran) 4:16 3.Ain't That Peculiar (Marvin Gaye) 3:36 4.Send In The Clowns (Stephen Sondheim) 3:44 5.Cantaloupe Island (Herbie Hancock) 4:53 6.Black Beauty (Duke Ellington) 4:29 7.Let's Stay Together (Al Green) 5:30 8.Dancing In The Street (Martha & The Vandellas) 4:10 9.All I Ask of You (Andrew Lloyd Webber) 4:21 10.More Than Yesterday (Spiral Staircase) 3:38 11.Gimme Some Lovin' (Steve Winwood) 3:39 write your comments about the article :: © 2021 Jazz News :: home page |