David Gluck, percussion; Wiff Rudd and Rex Richardson, trumpets; Alex Shuhan, french horn and piano; Tom Brantley, trombone; Charles Villarrubia, tuba
Influences
J.S. Bach, Duke Ellington, Radiohead, Beck, Bjork, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Fiona Apple, Kronos String Quartet, Pat Metheny, Josquin DuPrez, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Led Zeppelin, David Lynch, many others!!
Sounds Like
...what it is, I guess: six classically-trained performers with deep jazz backgrounds who are all heavy fans of pop, rock, and hip hop!
"Beyond Category" was a term the great Duke Ellington used as the highest form of praise for those artists who transcended normal boundaries. Since their inaugural season in 1993, rhyth3 & Brass has lived up to the ideal of a musical presentation that is not bound by time, geography or culture. With the unique ability to incorporate influences as divergent as Josquin Des Prez, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, Johann Sebastian Bach, and, of course, Duke Ellington, rhyth3 & Brasssearches for the commonality in these influences and fearlessly weaves them all into a single concert experience.
While maintaining an active touring schedule, rhyth3 & Brass has also performed at numerous special events including a 1994 New York concert debut at Carnegie Recital Hall with celebrated jazz trumpeter Randy Brecker. Commissions have been premiered at Chicago's Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic and the national convention of the Music Educator's National Conference. R&B has also been featured at the New York Brass Conference, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, the Raphael Mendez Brass Institute, Kentucky's Great American Brass Band Festival, the National Trumpet Competition and the National Association of Music Merchants Convention in Los Angeles. Internationally, rhyth3 & Brass has toured extensively in Canada, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Virgin Islands, and Japan.
I am very pleased to announce that the score and parts for my Voyageur Suite for brass quintet are now available from Art of Sound Music.
The Voyageur Suite is based on three melodies sung by the voyageurs, French-Canadian men who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders from Quebec and Montreal to the regions bordering the Great Lakes and on to the Mackenzie and Columbia Rivers during the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. While they paddled hour after hour in their cramped canoes, the voyageurs sang of their canoes, their country, their life and their loves. The Suite was premiered Feb. 15, 2007, by the Alaska Brass.
man you guys were freakin awesome last night!!! When's the next time you're around the area for another gig? I'd love to come check you guys out again and bring some friends.
