JCA ORCHESTRA LIVE ON WGBH RADIO, MAY 19 at 9PM

JCA ORCHESTRA LIVE ON WGBH RADIO, MAY 19 at 9PM

On Wednesday, May19, at 9 pm, the Jazz Composers Alliance will present a one hour program of creative music featuring compositions for the 19-piece JCA Orchestra by resident composers David Harris, Darrell Katz, Bob Pilkington, and Norm Zocher live on WGBH radio (FM 89.7, Boston’s NPR station), on Jazz on WGBH with Eric Jackson.

We will be broadcasting live from WGBH’s Fraser Performance Studio, and there is room for a small audience. Email info@jazzcomposersalliance.org if you’d like to reserve a space. Seating is limited. 

You can also listen to this performance on line at: www.wgbh.org/897/

The Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra has been a fixture on Boston’s creative music 

scene since its first performance in December 1985. Combining dedicated musicianship, 

innovative programming and fresh compositional ideas, JCA concerts are colorful, adventurous and high-energy events. The JCA Orchestra has released four critically acclaimed CDs since 2003 (and 7 total): The Same Thing (Cadence), In, Thru and Out (Cadence), The Death of Simone Weil (Innova), and Celebration of the Spirit (C.I.M.P.), all of which feature the diverse writing styles of the JCA resident composers. A new CD was recorded at WGBH’s studios and is scheduled for release in August on Accurate records. 

Drawing on influences that span the history of jazz and encompass the world's musical 

traditions, the JCA composers bring together a huge palette of sounds, structures and concepts to make the JCA Orchestra's concerts unique sonic experiences. Many of the band’s featured soloists are bandleaders and composers in their own right, and are some of New England’s most creative musicians, including Hiro Honshuku (flute), Jim Hobbs (alto sax), Bob Pilkington (trombone), Mike Peipman (trumpet), Phil Scarff (tenor sax), David Harris and Bill Lowe (trombone) and Rebecca Shrimpton (voice).  The JCA Orchestra was a runner up in last years Boston Phoenix Best of Boston poll.

The Jazz Composers Alliance would also like to announce that it has received operating support from The Massachusetts Cultural Council for 2009-10.  

For further information on the Jazz Composers Alliance, call the JCA at (781) 899-3130, email info@jazzcomposersalliance.org, or visit jazzcomposersalliance.org. or

 myspace.com/jazzcomposersallianceorchestra.

Admission is free.

ALSO: Two of the JCA Orchestra's long time players and composers, Jim Hobbs and Phil Scarff have been nominated in the Best Of Boston Music Poll.bestmusicpoll.com/

Be sure to vote!

This project is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.