Wednesday, November 25, 2005 Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band performance of "Sing, Sing, Sing" at Upper East Side Jazz Lounge (owned by my parents) in Richmond, VA. This was the last night that this venue was open. Thanks to Sean Patrick and Brandon Mitchell for filming the show. Extra thanks to Brandon who edited and posted the film up.
Influences
2008 Winner for Composition, "I Can't Believe I'm Addicted To The O.C."
Sounds Like
Montage video of Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band performing at Bogart's of Richmond, VA. Features vocalist/pianist/organist Adrian Duke. The song is "Signs Are Full of Jive" and is from Trinh's album "Very Strange Night." Shot and edited by David Hellman.
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ALL THE SONGS that you're listening to on the PLAYLIST are composed, arranged, orchestrated, and conducted by SAMSON TRINH except noted. Here's the personnel from the PLAYLIST:
"TO YOU, NEAR YOU, WITH YOU" - Terri Simpson (vocals); The Lounge Union Strings, Winds, & Percussion
"SIGNS ARE FULL OF JIVE" - Adrian Duke (vocals/piano/organ); Upper East Side Big Band
"SANFORD & SON THEME" (by Quincy Jones) - Jay Calabro (electric bass); Lance Koehler (drums/percussion); Karl Morse (electric guitar); Marcus Tenney (trumpet); Samson Trinh (tenor sax)
"VERY STRANGE NIGHT" - Upper East Side Big Band
"I WON" - Lead Singer's Name Who I Forgot (vocals); Will Gorman (background voices); Rob Quallich, Marcus Tenney (trumpets); Reggie Pace, Stefan Demetriadis (trombones); Karl Morse (guitar); Jay Calabro (bass); Aaron Thompson (drums); Samson Trinh (conductor, piano, tenor sax, tamborine)
"TIME AFTER TIME" (by Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne/arr. Samson Trinh) - Upper East Side Big Band
BIOGRAPHY
At 24 years of age, Samson Trinh's debut album, Very Strange Night displays his talents as writer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator, bandleader, producer, and conductor! It also features Richmond, VA's finest musicians such as vocalists Terri Murphy, Adrian Duke, and Jackie Frost; trumpeter Rex Richardson; pianist Skip Gailes; and members of Agents of Good Roots, Bio Ritmo, Devils Workshop, Fighting Gravity, and Modern Groove Syndicate!
In 1999, he attended the Berklee College of Music's Summer Program with a Music Scholarship. Samson has also received several Merit Scholarships from Virginia Commonwealth University where he has earned his B.M. in Jazz Studies. At VCU, Samson studied composition and jazz arranging privately with Doug Richards (founder and director of G.A.M.E.) and saxophone with Skip Gailes, John Winn, and principal New York Philharmonic saxophonist, Albert Regni. He is the winner of the 2005 Richmond Jazz Society's prestigious Joe Kennedy, Jr. Scholarship and was an alumnus at New York's Manhattan School of Music studying Jazz Composition with well-known composer, Michael Abene (Associate Music Director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop).
Samson has composed, performed, collaborated and/or recorded with/for The Temptations, Al Jarreau, Nellie McKay, Fighting Gravity, Carlos Chafin (In Your Ear Studios), Robbin Thompson, Desiree Roots, Plunky Branch, Mulgrew Miller, Rudy Faulkner & F.R.E.N.S., John Winn, James "Saxsmo" Gates, the Richmond Jazz Society's Make Music with Me Band, VCU Jazz Orchestra I, and members of the Richmond Symphony.
Music video featuring a live performance of The Adrian Duke Projek at Minimum Wage Studios. The song is Duke's "Just The Man" with horn arrangements by me. Shot by David Hellman and edited by Todd Raviotta.
Hey Samson! How are you? I had a quick request. Any possible way I could get a CD of your Abbey Road concert? If so, please let me know and how much they go for! Hope you're doing well!
She had the recorder last year and the year before. It will be interesting to see if she sticks with it, Im not sure if she really realizes how difficult playing an instrument is..... we'll see:-)
So Mya comes home from school yesterday and tells me she wants to play an instrument this year. Guess which one it was. Hint: I think she was inspired by either you or Lisa Simpson.
Some interesting tidbits of info I thought you might like to know about the one and only Chuck Norris... There are no races, only countries of people Chuck Norris has beaten to different shades of black and blue. For some, the left testicle is larger than the right one. For Chuck Norris, each testicle is larger than the other one. Chuck Norris is responsible for China's over-population. He hosted a Karate tournament in Beijing and all women within 1,000 miles became pregnant instantly. Chuck Norris invented the bolt-action rifle, liquor, sexual intercourse, and football-- in that order. When Chuck Norris was a baby, he didn't suck his mother's breast. His mother served him whiskey, straight out of the bottle. Chuck Norris wears a live rattlesnake as a condom. Chuck Norris once shat blood - the blood of 11,940 natives he had killed and eaten. chuck Norris' testicles do not produce sperm. They produce tiny white ninjas that recognize only one mission: seek and destroy.
Counting down the days til I can get my Samson fix. It seems that the withdrawal symptoms have been particularly harder to deal with this time. Symptoms include but are not limited too.... -frequent and uncontrollable urination -face convulsions causing unknown deformities in the face and neck region (refer to pic below) -random and sudden outbursts containing crude language -Listening to The Beatles and watching The Wonder Years has not been the same.....
I never really thanked you for taking me around when my family and I visited you guys last fall. Anyway, thanks. Kinda late, but better late than never :) I hope you're doing well. Say hi to your parents for me.
WHO took all these great photos of you and the peeps?!!? I love the new pics Samson! I took some from the balcony but all I could get was your back-side, which normally would have been GREAT, but from way up there the pictures came out all blurry. I am glad that so many awesome photos turned out. That look on your face is priceless!
depends on what is happening with me for work then.. i wanna say YES YES i'll be there... just had to cancel my trip to cleveland cuz of work, so hopefully richmond will make up for it! will you be there???
7th favorite! I'm hurt. =P I'm doing well. The last movie i saw was wanted. Loved it. So how does it feel to be an uncle? Hope you and your family are doing great!
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