The One O'Clock Lab Band - Lab 2009
This is a montage of the tunes on the new One O'Clock Lab Band CD: "Lab 2009"
Submitted for Grammy Consideration: Round 1
The One O'Clock Lab Band - Lil' Darlin', Kevin Swaim, Arranger
Also submitted for Grammy Consideration:
The One O'Clock Lab Band - Ice Nine, Steve Wiest, Composer
Composed by Steve Wiest
Also submitted to the Grammys:
Another Other
Submitted for Grammy consideration
Composed by Neil Slater, solo submitted: Sylvester Onyejiaka tenor saxophone
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The UNT One O'Clock Lab Band will be appearing at Birdland in New York on Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00pm. Make plans to attend now!
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This is a video featurette put together by my pal Phil Bulla about my new CD: "Out of The New" which was just released at www.arabesquerecordings.com.
FYI: If you click on this video to check it out, be sure to silence the tunes playing in the embedded player at the top of my profile! (could get kind of "Charles Ivesy" otherwise! :)
Arabesque Recording artist and Grammy-nominated arranger Steve Wiest is in great demand as a featured soloist, composer/arranger and clinician. He has performed extensively in the U.S., South America, Australia, Japan, and Europe. Wiest's solo CD: "Excalibur: The Steve Wiest Big Band" was released in August of 2006 by Arabesque Jazz to wide critical acclaim (see Blog for reviews). The newest Arabesque project "Out of The New" is set for release in September of 2008 (see video featurette on this site). Steve is now teaching jazz composition and jazz trombone at The University of North Texas where he was appointed Interim Director of the world-famous One O'Clock Lab Band.
From 1981-1986, Steve was the featured trombonist and one of the arrangers for Maynard Ferguson's Band. While with Maynard, he recorded two CDs: "Storm" and "Live From San Francisco", and one two-volume video: "The Playboy Jazz Festival". During this time, Steve and the M.F. band also performed with a number of guest artists including: Freddie Hubbard, Slide Hampton, Wynton Marsalis, David Clayton Thomas, Lew Soloff, Billy Eckstein, and Mel Torme. Maynard has recorded a number of Steve's compositions and arrangements including: "South 21st Shuffle" (Live From San Francisco), "Portuguese Love" (The Playboy Jazz Festival), "I Love You" (Brass Attitude) and "I'm Old Fashioned" on MF Horn VI. Steve reunited with Maynard for a final performance at the Blue Note in New York for 12 sold out shows in July, 2006. The all-star MF alum group then went into the studio to record what would be Maynard's final CD, to be released in early 2007. Included on this release will be Wiest's arrangements of "Besame Mucho" and "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone"
Following his years with Ferguson, Steve completed a Masters Degree in Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas. While at UNT, he was the lead trombonist and one of the featured arrangers for the UNT 1:00 Lab Band. His composing, arranging, and trombone playing can be heard on the following UNT CDs: "Lab '86", "Lab '87", "Lab '88", " With Respect To Stan", "Live From Australia", "The Best of The 1:00", and "Fifty Years of Jazz at North Texas". Steve also contributed a chart to "Lab 89", and most recently Lab 2008. In 1997 in celebration of the 50th year of the UNT Jazz Studies Program, Steve was a featured soloist with an all-star band of UNT alumni that included: Tom Malone, Ed Soph, Marvin Stamm, Lou Marini, and Jack Peterson. For more information about these recordings, please visit the UNT Jazz page at http://www.jazz.unt.edu .
After a two-year stint as Assistant Director of Jazz Studies at The University of Texas at Arlington, [1988-1990], Steve became Director of Jazz Studies and Trombone at The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. During his tenure at UW-Whitewater, Steve was also a regular member of the Doc Severinsen Big Band and recorded "Swingin' The Blues" with Doc on Azika Records in 2000. Steve was hired as Assistant Professor of Jazz at the University of North Texas in 2007 and was recently appointed as Director of the One O'Clock Lab Band and Coordinator of Lab Bands.
For more info on the Jazz Studies program at UNT go to: http://www.jazz.unt.edu To read about the UNT Trombone Studio go to: www.untbones.com
Steve has a number of arrangements and texts published with various companies including Kendor, Doug Beach, Hal Leonard, Ron Keezer's Really Good Music and The University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press. All the original music from his Arabesque CD "Excalibur" is available at Wlarus Music: http://www.walrusmusic.com
Ciao Steve ,Thank you for the add and the friendship. you are very good, I like your stupendous music a lot, you are fantastic ..really. talk to you soon, and all of my best wishes to always listen to your good music. all the best.. from italy neal
Thanks so much for the add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends!
We hope you and your friends enjoy our music, too. We've just added four new compositions and two new blogs about Umano.
We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy.
It also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.
We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.
What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
Thom & Lorry Gambino New York, New York
PS from Thom: I first met Maynard in 1958, when he was performing in the ballroom on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City and I was a 16-year-old boy performing there in the kiddies' show called "Tony Grant's Stars of Tomorrow." All of the guys, including Maynard, were so nice to us budding jazzers that week. I interviewed him for my college newspaper later in the early 1960s and again he was so gracious. Of course, Lorry and I saw him many times over the course of our lives together and every time was as refreshing as the first. In addition, the Maynard Ferguson Jazz Institute, directed by Dennis DiBlasio is located at my Alma Mater, GSC/Rowan University in Glassboro NJ.
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Thanks for the add Steve. I'm in Atlanta right now on tour and Sam Skelton is playing reeds with us. We were just talking about your great writing today. Small world. All the best, Paul
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