On
Saturday, March 1, at 8 pm, at the Cambridge YMCA Theatre, the Jazz
Composers Alliance will present a program of creative music featuring
compositions for the 18-piece JCA Orchestra by resident composers
Darrell Katz, the returning Bob Pilkington, Warren Senders, and Norm
Zocher. Also included will be a piece by special guest composer, alto
saxophonist Jim Hobbs, of the Fully Celebrated Orchestra. The Cambridge
Family YMCA Theatre is located at 820 Massachusetts Avenue in Central
Square, Cambridge. Admission is $12/$8 for seniors & students.
The Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra has been a fixture on Boston's
creative music scene for over two decades, since the first performance
in December of 1985. Combining dedicated musicianship, innovative
programming and fresh compositional ideas, their concerts are musically
diverse and exciting events. The JCA Orchestra has released four CDs
since 2003, including the critically acclaimed
In, Thru and Out,
(Cadence), The Death of Simone Weil,
(Innova) and Celebration of the
Spirit. (C.I.M.P.), all of which
feature the widely varied writing of the JCA resident composers.
The Same Thing
will be released this spring on Cadence Jazz Records.
Alto saxophonist, guest composer Jim Hobbs, is the leader of the
critically acclaimed quartet, Fully Celebrated Orchestra, and has been a
featured soloist with the JCA Orchestra for eight years or more. "No one
today is playing the alto better than Hobbs," says Paul Olson of of
AboutJazz.com, "...the vast range of tones he summons from the small
horn is altogether remarkable..." Stephen Loewy, of Cadence Magainze
says "..his superb writing...mixes tempos, time signatures, harmonies
and timbre..." And Jon Garelick, of The Boston Phoenix asks, "Is alto
player Jim Hobbs the best saxophonist in Boston?"
Drawing on influences that span the history of jazz and encompass the
world's musical traditions, Katz, Pilkington, Senders and Zocher bring
together a huge palette of sounds, structures and conceptions to make
the JCA Orchestra's concerts unique "big band" experiences. Many of the
band's featured soloists are bandleaders and composers in their own
right, and are some of New England's most creative musicians, including
Hiro Honshuku (flute), Jim Hobbs (alto sax), Phil Scarff (tenor sax),
Pablo Bencid (drums), David Harris (trombone) and Rebecca Shrimpton
(voice).
The Jazz Composers Alliance would also like to announce that it has
received operating support from The Massachusetts Cultural Council and
The Aaron Copland Foundation for 2008.
For further information on the Jazz Composers Alliance, call the JCA at
(781) 899-3130, email info@jazzcomposersalliance.org, or visit
www.jazzcomposersalliance.org.
For further info about Jim Hobbs, visit
www.celebratefully.squarespace.com/
For further information about The YMCA theater, visit
www.cambymca.org/theatre.html
Upcoming: JCA
Orchestra with Oliver Lake, April 13th. At Arsenal Center For The Arts
in Watertown.
