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Rob Reddy's Bechet: Our Contemporary - Chamber Music America New Works Jazz Commission Premiere at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music

Courtesy of Rob Reddy | Posted on September 29, 2016

Where

The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
55 West 13th Street
New York, NY
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When

Wed, October 5, 2016
8:00 pm

Musicians

About

Rob Reddy's Bechet: Our Contemporary, is an ensemble whose repertoire is based on the legacy, life and music of the American soprano saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Sidney Bechet (1897-1959). The ensemble's initial recording (which was released in September, 2015), intertwined four of Sidney Bechet’s original compositions with four of Reddy's. Although Bechet’s work as the premiere Jazz soprano saxophonist has had a huge impact on Reddy, being that the soprano saxophone is his instrument of choice, he instead used Bechet's original compositions as a point of departure to create this work. The work is an homage to the great Bechet but in no terms a “repertoire” or “nostalgia” piece: these are reinterpretations of Bechet’s work along side Reddy's original compostions....

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