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Trombone Quartet Christmas Arrangements!

10/12/2013

I now have all 8 FULL versions of my trombone quartet Christmas arrangements, featuring Ido Meshulam on bass trombone!, up for your listening pleasure on my Music page under Trombone Quartet Christmas Arrangements!

These arrangements, with mp3 recordings, are available for purchase at my STORE page and you are welcome to Contact me with any questions about them via my Contact page!

I have also decided to write a few more of these this year and perform them outside on the streets of Boston's Back Bay with a group of fellow trombonists! So keep an eye, and an ear, out for us this upcoming holiday season!

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10/10/2013

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I am now available to do copyist work for anyone needing their handwritten scores transferred into a digital format!

Please Contact me for more info and with any questions you might have!

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Antonio Sanchez Visits Berklee

10/8/2013

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So today I had the pleasure of not only meeting but playing with Antonio Sanchez! He is this year's Zildjan Drummer and therefore comes into Berklee for a short residency and joins Greg Hopkins Concert Jazz Orchestra as a guest drummer! He is not only a ridiculous drummer and super easy to play with, he is also a really nice, easy going guy!

Today we ran through each of the five songs with him once in preparation for the show tomorrow night! It's at 8:15 in the BPC and will be fantastic! Not only is he playing with us but he is playing a small group set with George Garzone and John Lockwood after the big band set!

For more info on the show you can visit my Upcoming Gigs page! Berklee students can get up to 4 tickets free in advance, so head over to the box office and pick up your tickets now! This is a once in a lifetime show!

Me with Antonio Sanchez after our rehearsal.

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Live Music Is Not Dead!

10/1/2013

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So I went and saw not one, not two, but THREE live music performances last week all in Cambridge, MA!

The first was at the Lily Pad in Cambridge and was called The Fringe. The Fringe features the amazing George Garzone and they play at this venue every week! The cover is $10 which goes to helping the small venue pay their rent and give the band whatever they can. There was decent attendance here, but the place was certainly not packed to full as it should have been because no one can argue that this group is anything but incredible!

The second group I saw was at the Regatta Bar in Cambridge on Wednesday night, it was the Miguel Zenon group. The Regatta Bar is definitely a more upscale sort of establishment so the ticket price is a little higher but it is one of the staple "jazz clubs" in the Boston Area and well worth a visit. The group was fantastic but what struck me silly was that the place wasn't even half full! I figure this could be because it was at 7:30pm on a Wednesday night, but still, this is a fairly well known group and they really put on a great show.

Now the third performance I saw last week was Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Hardvard's spectacular Sander's Theatre. Now this show had free admissions and the house was packed! Now this was on Thursday night at 7pm so it leaves me wondering again why there was such poor attendance at the Regatta Bar the night before. This group is also very well known but it wasn't even a performance it was a lecture given by Wynton about the history of jazz and the band only ever played short excerpts as examples for the audience. Overall this show was really incredible, as a musician I did enjoy hearing about the history of jazz but I really would have loved to hear the band do a short set! the concert was 3 hours long afterall.

Now to come to the conclusion of my blog post, I managed to take in 3 AMAZING live performances all in one week all on weeknights! So there is absolutely no excuse for people to claim that live music is dead! Just get on out there and see these groups! They're out there, and they're waiting for you!

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Trombone Quartet Christmas Arrangements!

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Antonio Sanchez Visits Berklee

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