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Post-Classical Ensemble: Oct 1
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Jonathan Morris
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Sep 14, 2009 15:11 PDT
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Post-Classical Ensemble's upcoming "Encounters" concert, Oct. 1 at the Harman Center, brings to DC a pair of unclassifiable, widely recorded artists prominent both in jazz and classical circles. Both are fixtures of the edgy jazz scene in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The virtuoso bass trombonist David Taylor began his jazz career playing with the likes of Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, and with the Gil Evans and Charles Mingus Big Bands. More recently, he has toured with Winton Marsalis. When he is not composing for the Berlin Philharmonic or Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the composer/saxophonist Daniel Schnyder tours widely with a trio also including Taylor and the pianist Kenny Drew, Jr.; their repertoire ranges from Bach to Ellington to Schnyder. Reviewing a recent Leipzig performance of the trio, the Leipziger Volkszeitung wrote: "David Taylor turned Bach's Goldberg Variations and the St Matthew Passion Suite (transformed into jazz by Schnyder)
into a thunderstorm. He let it rain: a mixture of enthusiasm, sweat, and saliva. Schnyder's own compositions were a musical treat, One and a half hours of bewitching jazz: the sort of music one takes in not only with the ears, but with all available senses."
Tickets: $25, $35, $10 (Students only)
For tickets: 202.547.1122 or www.harmancenter.org
info: www.post-classicalensemble.org
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