Asphalt Orchestra

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Asphalt Orchestra named Best in Classical Music 2009

David Patrick Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer named Asphalt Orchestra among the Best in Classical Music 2009, alongside The Philadelphia Orchestra. Full details at http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/79053807.html

Philadelphia Inquirer: August 8, 2009

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— August 8, 2009 — by David Patrick Stearns — full article »

Not your mother’s marching band

Asphalt Orchestra returns to Lincoln Center!

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On Thursday, Nov. 19, Asphalt Orchestra is back at Lincoln Center for the opening of the brand new David Rubenstein Atrium. For this one-time-only community preview, AO will begin the party at noon with music by Bregovic, Zappa, Meshuggah, Stew & Heidi Rodewald, Braxton, and Bjork. More info at http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/target-free-thursdays

The Economist – August 13, 2009

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August 13, 2009 — by Colin Baker — full article »

I’ve seen some street bands, but never one as good as the Asphalt Orchestra.

New York Times – August 8, 2009

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August 8, 2009 — by Anthony Tommasini — full article »

An iconoclastic 12 piece marching band… part parade spectacle, part halftime show and part cutting-edge contemporary music concert. The playing was coolly brilliant and infectious. And what a scene!

YURI YAMASHITA quad toms

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Yuri Yamashita, percussionist, is an active performer of solo, chamber, and orchestral music. She has appeared at major concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Columbia’s Miller Theatre, Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, and Izumi Hall in Osaka, Japan. Ms. Yamashita was the percussionist of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival in the 2003 and 2004 seasons. She appeared in the Faculty Chamber Music Series and was featured in Frederic Rzewski’s To the Earth. A winner of the Mannes Concerto Competition and an alternate winner of the Juilliard Percussion Concerto Competition, Ms. Yamashita is also a recipient of the Avedis Zildjian Percussion Award. Born in Hyogo, Japan, Ms. Yamashita currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, and Kobe College.
http://www.myspace.com/yurijeans

NICK JENKINS bass drum

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Born in Charleston, SC, Nick Jenkins is a percussionist and composer with an extensive musical presence along the East Coast. A graduate of the College of Charleston, Nick plays an integral role in driving the pulse of the Charleston music scene, co-founding, recording and touring genre-blending bands such as Morimoto, Run Dan Run, Leah Suarez’s Toca Toca, Lindsay Holler’s Western Polaroids, Short Shorts, and Jack of Knives among others. Nick is a recent recipient of the New Music Collective’s “New Works Program” Commission Award (Summer 2009. He also volunteers with Charleston’s Jazz Artists of Charleston. Reaching outside of SC, Mr. Jenkins took his first international tour with Toca Toca playing alongside former Duke Ellington drummer, Emmanuel Abdul Rahim. He performs with New York-based marching band Asphalt Orchestra, which debuted in summer of 2009 at Lincoln Center’s Out Of Doors Festival.
http://paperjenkins-music.blogspot.com/

SUNNY JAIN snare drum

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Sunny Jain is a highly respected drummer, composer and educator quickly establishing himself as an Indian-American musical trailblazer. He leads Red Baraat, and his Sunny Jain Collective has been touted as a leading voice for the new music Indo Jazz. In 2002, Sunny was designated a Jazz Ambassador by the U.S. Department of State and The Kennedy Center and received the Arts International Award in both 2003 and 2005. Sunny was commissioned in 2006 by Chamber Music America’s New Works and in 2007 he performed with the famed Sufi-rock group Junoon at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway, playing for Al Gore. Sunny was also commissioned by the Aaron Copland Fund in 2008 Sunny played dhol in the first ever Indian Broadway show, Bombay Dreams (2004) and has since gone on to perform with Masala Bhangra, Sarina Jain, and jazz legend Dewey Redman. He will make his Hollywood debut playing dhol in the movie, Accidental Husband, starring Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, and Isabella Rossellini.
http://www.sunnyjain.com/

KEN BENTLEY sousaphone

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Kenneth Bentley was born in Round Rock, Texas on August 26, 1976. He graduated in the spring of 1999 with a Bachelor’s degree in Orchestral Performance from The University of Texas at Austin. During his summers at UT Austin, he worked for the Walt Disney Company at the theme parks in California, Paris and Tokyo. In the fall of 1999, Kenneth moved from Texas to New York where he completed a Master’s degree in Classical Music from the Manhattan School of Music in 2001. Kenneth joined the Young Blood Brass Band in 2004 and toured America and Europe with Young Blood from 2004-2006 and 2009. Currently, Kenneth resides in New York City where he freelances on Tuba and Electric Bass and plays sousaphone with the SugarTone Brass Band and the Asphalt Orchestra.

JEN BAKER trombone

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Trombonist Jen Baker has performed internationally in a variety of ensembles spanning from orchestra to free jazz. Through Meet the Composer Baker recently commissioned and performed Pat Muchmore’s THS on the east and west coasts. Baker’s solo project, Lyrical Vibrations, has been performed around the country and can also be heard on her solo album, Blue Dreams. Recording projects include Werner Herzog’s soundtrack Encounters at the End of the World, the Mountain Goats Get Lonely album, Music + One -solo improvisations- on Rastascan Records, and Untitled 1959, on Jerusalem-based label Kadima. Baker has performed in the International and Eastern Trombone Workshops, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, No’west Improvised Music Festival, Kennedy Center’s Women in Jazz Festival, International Society of Improvised Music Conference, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Santa Cruz Symphony, and Vermont Symphony. She has performed and collaborated with Stuart Dempster, Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, LaDonna Smith, Cecil Taylor, and Alvin Curran. http://www.myspace.com/jenbaker7

ALAN FERBER trombone

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Alan Ferber is known internationally as a virtuoso jazz trombonist and bandleader. In the jazz realm, he played lead trombone in the premiere of the “Sweet Ruby Suite” with Kenny Wheeler’s Large Ensemble, and has performed with the Lee Konitz Nonet, Don Byron’s Music For Six Musicians, the Benny Wallace Nonet, and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. Alan has also performed extensively in other genres with artists as diverse as Harry Connick Jr, Nancy Sinatra, Diana Krall, They Might Be Giants, Kelly Clarkson, Dr. Dre, Michael Buble, Paul Anka, and many Broadway shows. He has appeared on TV shows including Late Night with David Letterman, the Tonight Show, The View, Beverly Hills 90210, and Good Morning America. As a teacher, Alan has been professor in residence at the Gremio das Musicas Jazz Workshop in Portugal, the Bar Harbor Brass Week, the Maine Jazz Camp, the Guimarais Jazz Festival, and the Lafayette Summer Music Workshop.
http://www.alanferber.com/

STEPHANIE RICHARDS trumpet

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An emerging bright talent to the world of new and improvised music, Canadian trumpet player and composer Stephanie Richards is rapidly establishing a place for herself as a fresh voice. From international broadcasts with hip hop artist and Grammy winner Kanye West, to a recent improvised solo trumpet debut at Carnegie Hall, Stephanie is pushing the sound envelope of the creative musician’s appetite. She is winner of the International Trumpet Guild Young Artist Award, earned first prize in both the National Canadian Music Competition and the National Kiwanis Festival, is a McGill University Fellowship recipient and in 2004 was awarded the prestigious Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Stephanie has performed internationally on television (MTV, ABC, ATV) and throughout the US and Canada, Mexico, France, Sweden, and the UK, and is a featured upcoming artist in “Das Trompeter-Taschenbuch”, a compilation of trumpet players around the world published by Schott-publishing house.
http://www.myspace.com/stephtpt

SHANE ENDSLEY trumpet

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Trumpeter Shane Endsley resides in Brooklyn, NY, where he is steadily building his reputation as one of the most unique voices on the trumpet today. Downbeat Magazine named him as one of the “Top 25″ trumpeters of his generation in 2007. A truly modern and dynamic musician, he can be found on recordings ranging from modern instrumentalists Steve Coleman, Dave Binney, and Donny McCaslin, to folk and rock icons like Ani DiFranco, Erin McKeown, and Pearl Jam. Shane is an accomplished drummer and composer who is constantly expanding his musical vocabulary with the rich experiences offered by New York. He dove into the intricate ornamental style of the Balkan brass bands with the powerhouse 10 piece group, Slavic Soul Party and is now venturing into the lilting rhythms of Brazilian Forro and Maracatu with Scott Kettner of Nation Beat and Maracatu NY.
http://www.kneebody.com/frame_about.php?page=Endsley

PETER HESS tenor saxophone

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Peter Hess has lived and worked in NYC since 1997 as a composer and performer (clarinets, saxophones, flutes and percussion). He is a member of Balkan Beat Box (Crammed Disk), Barbez (Tzadik Records), Slavic Soul Party, Bang on a Can’s Asphalt Orchestra, and World/Inferno Friendship Society, and has toured extensively in the US, Europe, Mexico and Japan. Leader of avant-balkan quartet Guignol, Peter also co-leads Collide saxophone quartet and is a founding member/composer of AntiSocial Music. He has also appeared with Alarm Will Sound, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Darmstadt Ensemble, and James Jabbo Ware (AACM). Peter is an active session player and arranger for numerous indie rock bands including the Hold Steady, Son Volt, the Virgins, Songs:Ohia, Hem, and many others, appearing on over 80 records and film scores. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (96), and taught woodwind workshops in the Brooklyn and Queens public schools from 98-06 creating curricula from scratch in neighborhoods underserved in the arts. http://www.myspace.com/29839703