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www.tiltbrass.org
New York-based TILT Brass is a collective of creative brass and percussion artists that has presented the work of its members and peers since 2003. Members of TILT's two projects, the 10-piece Creative Brass Band and 6-piece SIXtet, are recognized leaders in the fields of avant jazz and experimental concert music, including trumpeters Russ Johnson and Nate Wooley, trombonists Joe Fiedler and Curtis Hasselbring, and percussionist Kevin Norton. Many vital New York venues have presented TILT Brass projects over its 6 year history including Whitney Museum, BAM Café, Joe's Pub, The Stone, Issue Project Room, Barbés, and Tonic. In addition to performing historical and contemporary works by luminaries from the experimental tradtion, the repertoire for both groups features over a dozen original compositions created with TILT's distinctive ensemble concept in mind. This ever-evolving list of idiosyncratic pieces includes works by Anthony Coleman, John King, Chris Jonas, Taylor Ho Bynum, and by group members Norton and Director Chris McIntyre.
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March - Prince (arr. CJM) [mp3]
SyndaKit
- Elliot Sharp [mp3]
TILT on Archive.Org
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Led by CJM,
LoTET performs music conceptually inspired by the oscillations and vibrations
of low frequencies. McIntyre's compositions for the group apply its diverse,
bass-heavy ensemble colors to canvas' of pulsing and visceral music from
the bottom up.
More Info
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The combined forces
of TILT Brass Band and LoTET. Debut at Roulette, December
8th, 2006. Instrumentation: duos of low winds, trumpet, trombone,
tuba, percussion, and electronic players.
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CJM-led septet comprised of serious New York trombonophiles that convenes
primarily for collaboartions with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma and her
School of Hard Knocks.
7X7 family:
CJM, Tim Albright, Joe Fiedler, Jacob Garchik, Ben Gerstein, Curtis Hasselbring,
Richard Marriot, Steve Swell, and Peter Zummo
More 7X7 info (including photos)
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Ne(x)tworks
is an ensemble of performing composers that explores various approaches
to improvisation within notation. Members of the group include: Joan
LaBarbara (voice), Kenji Bunch (viola), Shelley Burgon (harp), Yves
Dharamraj (cello), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Miguel Frasconi (glass
instr.), Ariana Kim (violin), Stephen Gosling (piano), CJM - trombone,
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cjMjs is a duo project that convolves CJM's background in solo trombone
repertoire and free improvisation with Michael Schumacher's skill in real-time
manipulation of sound and composerly aesthetic. Their collaborative compositions
are textural and improvisative, bluring the line between performance and
installation.
CJM - trombone | Michael
J. Schumacher - G4 laptop
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Gold
Sparkle Brass Band
GSBB is a free jazz, second-line New Orleans freak out that ranges in
size from 6 to 26. Featuring, as always, Gold Sparkle co-founders Charles
Waters and Andrew Barker, GSBB has included Sabir Mateen (winds), Matt
Lavelle (trumpet), Ron Caswell (tuba), and just about any other brass
and wind players Dr. Waters has aquainted.
Charlie Waters Quartet
On February 4, 2004, CWQ premiered Chroma Colossus, a 13 movement musical
transliteration of Colson Whitehead's new book Colossus of New York
at Tonic in NYC. In Waters' words, "The suite mixes cinematic interludes,
antique jazz and hard swinging free bop to create a musical soundscape
of the city." Charles Waters (alto sax/clarinet), CJM (trombone), George
Rush (bass), Andrew
Barker drums.
Subway
- C. Waters [1.8 MB]
Numerica
Band
A sextet led by composer, multi-instrumentalist, and Gold Sparkle Band
member Charles Waters. This group was formed to perform Waters' Numerica
Suite, a set of pieces given numerical titles (411, etc.) that explore
various thematic, rhythmic, and textural ideas generated by the inundation
of digital data in modern life. The work originally premiered in 2002
at Roulette in NYC,
and was recently staged during a benefit event for transmission arts
organization Free103point9.
Numerica Band is Charles Waters alto sax/clarinet, Nate Wooley
trumpet, CJM trombone, Ron Caswell tuba, Shanir Rosenkrantz
bass, Andrew
Barker drums.
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