CJM ensembles

CURRENT PROJECTS

CJM Led

TILT brass band
LoTET
LoTILT
7x7 Trombone Band

Collaborations

Ne(x)tworks
cjMjs
Gold Sparkle Projects
Elliott Sharp's Orchestra Carbon

TILT Brass Band

CJM is co-leader and trombonist in the New York-based TILT brass band, a collective of creative brass and percussion artists. Its music nods in all directions, fearlessly taking on works from the fringes of experimental concert music, arrangements of left-of-center pop tunes, blatant and oblique political pieces, full-band improvisations and beyond. TILT negotiates its tastes with programs ranging from far-flung aesthetic combinations to singular thematic and conceptual investigations, often dealing with the fusion of written and improvised material.

We March - Prince (arr. CJM) [1.8 MB]
SyndaKit - Elliot Sharp [1.4 MB]

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LoTET

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.

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LoTILT

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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7X7 Trombone Band

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)

excerpt - stuplimity no.1 by CJM [2.4 MB]

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Ne(x)tworks

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

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 PROJECTS

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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ORCHESTRA CARBON

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