Asphalt Orchestra

jessica — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:19:34 +0000

Asphalt Orchestra is now represented by Baylin Artists Management! For full information on Baylin, booking, and more visit http://www.baylinartists.com/artist/asphalt-orchestra/

Asphalt’s debut album soon is to be released on Cantaloupe Music, the label of iconoclastic Bang on a Can. Get your copy online now! http://bangonacan.org/store/product/183

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admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:28:58 +0000

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Philadelphia Inquirer: August 8, 2009

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:26:30 +0000

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

Not your mother’s marching band

Asphalt Orchestra returns to Lincoln Center!

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:44:16 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:13:02 +0000

Percussionist/singer Yuri Yamashita is involved in a wide variety of musical genres. She performs new music, world music, orchestral, Broadway musicals and sings Brazilian music. She has worked closely with the composer Tan Dun performing with the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia and other works of his with the Munich Philharmonic, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro Carlo Felice, and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a member of new music/rock band Newspeak and new music street band Asphalt Orchestra and has worked with Wordless Music Orchestra, VisionIntoArt, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. On Broadway, she has been performing in The Lion King and has played in Monty’s Python’s Spamalot. A native of Kobe, Japan, Yuri has degrees from the Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, and Kobe College. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

http://www.myspace.com/yurijeans

NICK JENKINS bass drum

admin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:14:36 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:16:20 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:10:53 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:12:02 +0000

Alan Ferber is known internationally as a jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader. He has released four albums, all of which blur traditional boundaries through an intriguing mix of influences. The Wall Street Journal affectionately describes his music as “somehow both old school and cutting edge”. Alan’s latest project with his nonet and string orchestra, called Chamber Songs was released in May 2010 on Sunnyside Records. Alan has released two additional recordings featuring his nonet on the reputable Fresh Sound New Talent label, The Compass and Scenes From An Exit Row. He has performed and recorded with artists including: Charlie Hunter, Sufjan Stevens, Dr. Dre, David Binney, John Hollenbeck, Don Byron, Kelly Clarkson, and They Might Be Giants. He also played lead trombone in the Broadway production of Ragtime, named best musical of 2009 by Time magazine, and has subbed on many others including South Pacific, West Side Story, and The Producers. As an educator, Alan is currently adjunct professor of trombone and jazz studies for the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University and the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University. He also teaches adjunct at the New School in New York City and has been artist-in-residence at the University of Oregon and the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

STEPHANIE RICHARDS trumpet

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:17:22 +0000

An emerging bright talent to the world of new and improvised music, trumpeter 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 solo trumpet debut at Carnegie Hall, to collaborations with comedian Denis Leary, Stephanie is orchestrating a unique trajectory. 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 appears as an upcoming artist in “Das Trompeter-Taschenbuch”, a compilation of trumpet players of yesterday and today published by Schott-publishing house. To read more, visit www.stephrichards.com

SHANE ENDSLEY trumpet

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:18:26 +0000

“Jazz keeps slowly widening, and the young trumpeter Shane Endsley is working calmly and effectively at the perimeter.” – NY Times
Shane 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, Ben Allison, Chris Speed, 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 NewYork. 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.

PETER HESS tenor saxophone

admin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:08:53 +0000

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