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| Chuck Owen & the Jazz SurgeCelebrating 25 Years @ Birdland Sunday, September 26th 5 PM Please join Chuck & the Jazz Surge, who's last 3 CDs have garnered 7(!!) GRAMMY nominations and been critically praised as "inventive, colorful, playful, provocative, and swinging" in celebrating their 25th Anniversary as well as the release of their most recent project "Within Us" with a rare New York performance at the renown Birdland Jazz Club. Chuck Owen's compositions have been performed widely; by the Netherlands' Metropole Orch., WDR Big Band, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orch. and numerous others. The recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship and five individual GRAMMY nominations Chuck's thoughtful, creative, evocative, and intensely personal work is steeped in the jazz tradition but draws liberally and often playfully from a diverse array of additional influences that include contemporary classical, American folk/roots music, Latin, funk, . . . even country! Since its founding in 1995, Owen's primary creative outlet has been the 19-piece Jazz Surge for whom he has served as conductor, primary composer/arranger, and producer of each of the Surge's highly feted CDs. Whispers On the Wind, the ensemble's 2017 release was recognized with 4 Grammy Nominations while also named #1 Big Band Album in the annual Jazz Station Awards. River Runs (2013), a stunning 5-movement genre-bending orchestral/big band hybrid also netted Owen with nominations for best instrumental composition and arranging. A committed, passionate, and nationally respected jazz educator for 40 years; Owen recently retired from teaching but continues to serve as President of ISJAC (International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers), an organization he was instrumental in founding. write your comments about the article :: © 2021 Jazz News :: home page |