Pulse

What does winning an arts award mean?

Another very interesting article in the Guardian about the proliferation of awards in the arts world and whether there are too many for any to be truly meaningful of quality. As Dash says in the Incredibles, "If everyone is special, then no one is special."

Joe

Steve Reich, A Rebel in Defense of Tradition

Here's a nice overview article in the Nation about the career of one of my main influences and inspirations, Steve Reich. As many of the recent "Steve Reich at 70" festivities around New York City can attest to, Steve Reich has been one of our most influential composers who should be more known to general public.

Joe

One More Gig

Hey folks. One more interesting gig of mine. It presents my uncoventional trio of two saxophones and trombone called Triocracy. We're playing in the very homey space of Night & Day Restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

This trio came into existence orginally when I was at school at New England Conservatory and consisted of Allan Chase on Eb saxes (alto, baritone, & sopranino) and Jason Hunter on Bb saxes (tenor & soprano). Since moving to New York in 2000, I have employed the creative services of Andy Laster and Chris Bacas. If you don't know these guys that well, Andy is a veteran of the "downtown" music scene and has played with cats like Julius Hemphill, Andrew Hill, & Dave Douglas. Chris has a rich big band background having performed with Buddy Rich, Artie Shaw, & the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (he also plays tenor in my big band The Schumacher/Sanford Sound Assembly).

The music we play is a mixture of original compositions and improvisations as well as some “covers” from the jazz universe (Gerry Mulligan, Wayne Shorter, Paul Motian), the classical canon (Henry Purcell, Percy Grainger), and good ol’ popular song (Steven Sondheim, Billy Joel).
Here are the specs:

Triocracy
JC Sanford – trombone
Andy Laster – alto sax, bari sax, clarinet
Chris Bacas – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet

Saturday, October 7
9pm
Night and Day
230 5th Ave. (@ President St.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
http://www.nightanddayrestaurant.com/program.html
718-399-2161

$5 cover + $7 drink/food minimum

"Free-ish Chamber Jazz"

for more info:
[email protected]
www.jcsanford.com