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Pianist Dave Miller has been a fixture on the Northern California jazz scene for quite a few years. Early in his life he discovered the music of George Shearing whose quintet made bebop accessible in the 1950s, and he considers
Shearing an important influence on his own playing although Miller has his own voice in straight ahead jazz.

Highly influential, yet virtually unknown,Tadd Dameron influenced the greats. These are some of his elusive works!

Craig Fraedrich – trumpet and flugelhorn

“Rescued!” celebrates the forgotten works of a group of 19th-century hornists and composers. The music included in this recording was composed between roughly 1860 and 1910 and are quality works aimed primarily at low horn players of the late 19th century who still used single F horns. In looking at the history and repertoire of the French horn at the time, it is clear that there was a split in writing style between works intended for low horn players who used the single F horn and those for high horn players who used shorter single Bb horns (the modern double horn in F/Bb not having been invented until 1897). The works most commonly played today from that time are idiomatic for the high horn player, but the works recorded here are all idiomatic for a low horn player on a single F horn, as they hardly go to the top of the staff and venture more freely into the low range. This recording is the product of months of dedicated preparation. The valved horn used, seen on the cover of the recording, was constructed specifically for this project by Richard Seraphinoff; the mouthpiece is a copy of a period mouthpiece by Moosewood. The difficulty level rises considerably on the single F horn compared to a modern double horn, and the tone of the F horn has a more raw quality in the upper range very much related to that of the natural horn. In fact it is, in many respects, more difficult to play than the natural horn as it is so prone to rough attacks in the upper register.

A journey through the many faces of the trombone

Philip Francis Farkas was a legendary principal orchestra player, a leading teacher, author of a book known as the Bible for horn players, and a co-founder of the IHS.

Rafael Méndez was born on March 26, 1906 in Jiquilpan, Mexico. His musical training began when he was five, when his father needed a trumpet player for the orchestra comprised of family members. The Méndez orchestra was a popular performing group and appeared regularly at festivals and community gatherings. Rafael loved the trumpet and actually practiced more that his father allowed.

Arnold Jacobs was born in Philadelphia on June 11, 1915 but raised in California. The product of a musical family, he credits his mother, a keyboard artist, for his initial inspiration in music, and spent a good part of his youth progressing from bugle to trumpet to trombone and finally to tuba. He entered Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music as a fifteen-year-old on a scholarship and continued to major in tuba.

The Pilsen concert life was developing successfully already in the 19th century. The Pilsen Philharmonic Circle founded in 1882 became one of forerunners of Pilsen Philharmonic in the Pilsen’s modern history. This ensemble played a distinctive role in the city´s culture life as well as prepared the platform for the later orchestra and culture life development.

”The music of George Enescu continues to be a source of discovery for me. As the Fates would have it, though, his Chamber Symphony for 12 Instruments was already familiar to me from a recent Ondine recording by Hannu Lintu conducting the Tampere Philharmonic, which I reviewed only as recently as 36:2. In that review, I stated that the work was new to me and that I had no other versions against which to compare it. Well, that situation didn’t last long, for here is another performance of the piece, which, on my first hearing of it under Lintu, didn’t make a very favorable impression.

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra/Timothy Russell, conductor/Robert Spring, clarinet /Katherine DeJongh, flute /Katherine Borst-Jones, alto flute /Carmen Pelton, soprano