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Chris’s composition “Interplay for 3 Violins and Orchestra” featuring The Boston Pops and violin virtuoso Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Jazz violinist Regina Carter and Celtic fiddler Eileen Ivers of Riverdance fame was broadcast on PBS’ “Evening at Pops” and won the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for Chris for best composi¬tion for television broadcast. Chris has twice been named a Meet The Composer/Music Alive Composer. In addition to his instrumental work with the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, Chris tours, records and sings with his acoustic funk-blues group, Triple Play. Chris’ new Koch International Classics CD, “Convergence,” with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra features his “Prague Concerto for Bass Trombone.”
The L.A Times wrote “Chris has become one of the most capable electric bassists, delivering imaginative solos.”
The New York Post wrote of a Carnegie Hall performance, “The high point of the night came when Chris horned in on a beautifully reflective solo and switching instruments, blew one of the best trombone solos I’ve heard in years.”
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Larry Coryell: Improvisations: Best of the Vanguard Years
by Josef Woodard
There have been many smoother operators in the world of jazz guitar than Larry Coryell, the brainy rough rider who was a natural-born fusioneer, in the best sense. There have been cleaner technicians on the instrument, with a more lucid sense of identity and careers that have followed a logical, rolling landscape. But not many have quite attained Coryell's strange, madly eclectic state of grace: into music he came, he saw and heard things not yet articulated, he conquered on ...
read moreChris Brubeck at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
by Mark Sullivan
Chris Brubeck Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Jazz at the Bechtler Charlotte, NC October 4, 2019 The “Jazz at the Bechtler" series celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and next year is composer/pianist Dave Brubeck's centenary. So it is appropriate that Dave's son Chris was the special guest for a pair of concerts with the Ziad Jazz Quartet. Chris spent several years playing with his dad's group, and has established himself as a composer/trombonist/bassist/pianist ...
read moreChris Brubeck's Triple Play: Live at Arthur Zankel Music Center
by C. Michael Bailey
When considering something as seriously artistic as jazz, it is often overlooked that said music is to be enjoyed as well as appreciated. The key operative in enjoy is joy, and multi- instrumentalist Chris Brubeck and his merry band Tripleplay are obviously full of it. Live at Arthur Zankel Music Center was recorded at Skidmore College during the 2011 Saratoga Artsfest, capturing Brubeck's side project at full wind. This concert is a brand of blues and jazz with absolutely no ...
read moreNew Live CD by Chris Brubeck's Triple Play Due for Release Feb. 7 on Blue Forest Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Over the past decade, Chris Brubeck (on bass, trombone, and piano), guitarist Joel Brown, and multi-instrumentalist Peter Madcat Ruth have honed a vast and vivid repertoire encompassing Delta blues, Tin Pan Alley standards, New Orleans grooves, jazz gems, and incisive originals. With all three contributing vocals, Triple Play delivers an epic sojourn through American music unlike any other band on the scene. Their new CD, Live at Arthur Zankel Music Center, features two Triple Play patriarchs as special guests: piano ...
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Opera Diva Frederica von Stade, Jazz Musician Chris Brubeck Perform in Benefit Concert for Conservatory Lab Charter School, October 26 at NEC's Jordan Hall
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All About Jazz
NEC's Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor Benjamin Zander Featured in Program of Works by Canteloube, Ravel, Brubeck
Renowned mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and jazz musician Chris Brubeck will team up with New England Conservatory's Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Benjamin Zander for a concert to benefit the Conservatory Lab Charter School. The performance takes place Tuesday October 26 at 8 p.m. at NEC's Jordan Hall.
Von Stade, a member of the school's Advisory Board, will perform Canteloube's Chants D'Auvergne and Brubeck's ...
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"Chris has become one of the most capable electric bassists, delivering imaginative solos." -Los Angeles Times
