Editing...
...for the Cycles Suite score has also begun. Planning to be finished in a few weeks.

Mixing for Cycles Suite...
...will go forward this summer, with the CD release expected this fall or winter. I'll also be looking at ways to make Jentsch Group Quartet more active with a studio recording project and associated gigs to come.

The Cycles Suite premiere...
The FEB 11 Jentsch Group Large concert at the Kitchen was a great success. I think we probably got a very good recording of a terific performance by the band. We received a nice review in the NY Sun.

Brooklyn Suite CD...
Some good reviews are in: AllAboutJazz and February's DownBeat Magazine (to be posted). I'm also quoted about the Brooklyn scene in Dan Ouellette's DB Question column in March.

Ucross Artist Retreat
This past August I spent two weeks in Wyoming at the Ucross Foundation to work on the upcoming NYSCA suite music (see below).

The Release Concert...
...was a big musical success. Thanks to all who played and came out! It was gratifying to finally play the guitar part for Miami Suite after all these years (we added live audio samples), and the performance of "Brooklyn" felt good, together, and loose.

We've mixed the eight-track recordings of the concert, and they're very good sounding documents of great performances. I may have to make them available.

Guest DJ, WKCR New York
I was the guest host on June 6 of the Musician’s Show on WKCR here in NY. Every Wednesday, they invite a working musician into their studios to act as a 'guest DJ' on Jazz Alternatives. I was asked to program jazz that was influential to me, things I’m currently listening to related to jazz, and some of my own stuff. Here’s my hopelessly eclectic play list (spaces indicate set breaks):

Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd - Monk’s Dream

Egberto Gismonte – Kalimba
Norma Winstone – Café

Jentsch Group Large – Follow That Cab

Wes Montgomery – ‘Round Midnight
Jim Hall – I Hear a Rhapsody
Tim Hagans – I Hear a Rhapsody

Duke Ellington – Caravan
Quintet of the Hot Club of France – Body and Soul
Louis Armstrong – Just one of Those Things

80s Nostalgia Set:
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Zero
Oregon – The Rapids

Christopher Jentsch Trio – Summer grasses, all that remains of soldiers’ dreams

Miles Davis – All of You (Plugged Nickel)

Studio orchestra set:
Frank Sinatra - It’s a Lonesome Old Town
Joni Mitchell – A Case of You

Jentsch Group Large – Imagining the Mirror

Garbarek, Vitous, Erskine – Clouds in the Mountain
Paul Bley – Ida Lupino

Tom Waits – Come on up to the House
Sidsel Andriessen – This is the Movie

Thanks to my host, Dave Seidenberg, and to those that called in.

Jentsch Group Large CD Release
Brooklyn Suite CDs are in and are available at the following:

Amazon.com
BarnesandNoble.com
CDUniverse.com
ArtistDirect.com
Fleur De Son Records - additional sound sample available
or through this Web site - go to the music page.

2007 NYSCA grant!
I have received a new grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. The project is a new suite for Jentsch Group Large: Cycles Suite featuring Mike Kaupa (trumpet, flugel), set for a premiere at the Kitchen in NYC, February 11, 2008. More details on the calendar page.