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Joe Muccioli

Joe Muccioli is an internationally known conductor, orchestrator, musicologist and producer. Muccioli is co-founder and artistic director of the Jazz Arts Project, Inc. and its flagship ensemble the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra, an all star line up of the finest jazz musicians in the NY/NJ metropolitan area. He is also conductor and music director for Actor/Entertainer Joe Piscopo, with performances in Atlantic City as well as touring the US and Abroad. Muccioli has presented many heralded performances bridging the gulf between European influenced concert music, symphonic presentations and classic jazz rooted in the American tradition. He has conducted major symphonies and jazz orchestras throughout the world, including the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, the BBC Big Band, the Wuppertal Symphony (Germany), the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK; and has been featured on TV and radio broadcasts including NPR, the BBC in the UK, SVT in Sweden and all over northern Europe, and the WDR in Germany and the Adelaide Symphony in Australia.

He is perhaps best known for his thorough and accurate reconstructions of major works from the classic jazz repertoire, including the entire series of Gil Evans/Miles Davis collaborations, Miles Ahead, Porgy & Bess, Sketches of Spain, and Birth of the Cool, all of which have been praised and performed throughout the world. It was this effort that first allowed these masterworks from the jazz repertoire to be performed for the first time in over 40 years since the initial recordings.

Muccioli's work is evident in every aspect of the music industry from live concert performances to recordings, television, movies and Broadway shows, including various publications, CD's and DVD's available Internationally. He supervised the music preparation for the Miles Davis performance at one of his last appearances at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland (available on Qwest Records), and was a consultant on the 1997 CD box set issued by Sony Music Miles Davis and Gil Evans The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings. Heprepared, edited and engraved the score to the 1997 Pulitzer Prize winning composition Blood on the Fields composed by Wynton Marsalis.

His work also includes concerts, recordings and other projects with such artists and composers as, Miles Davis, Paquito D'Rivera, Jon Faddis, Randy Brecker, Marvin Stamm, Barry Harris, Quincy Jones, Ann Hampton Callaway, Gerry Mulligan, Buck Clayton, Lew Soloff, Wynton Marsalis, and Clark Terry.

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The Red Bank Jazz Orchestra, led by musical director Joe Muccioli, was primed to impress and never let the audience down. - Dw. Dunphy, Little Silver-Oceanport Patch

“In a concert in Birmingham's Symphony Hall ... (conductor) Joe Muccioli, took a mezmorized audience through the Miles Davis classic album "Sketches of Spain". It was a true honor for JazzMouse to be involved with this production for BBC Radio 2. - JazzMouse.co.uk

Randy Brecker in front of the Burlington Discover Jazz Orchestra, capably conducted by Joe Muccioli...was the highlight of the evening. Muccioli provided just the right blend of music history and solo acknowledgment as the musicians worked through selections of “Porgy & Bess” as well as a complete reading of “Sketches of Spain.” - Paul Kaza, Burlington Free Press, Burlington Vt.

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