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Richard Sorce

Ph.D., Published composer, charted songwriter, author of music theory textbook, professor of music, and founder of the all-original Latin-Jazz group, "The Richard Sorce Project," consisting of piano, bass, guitar, drums, percussion, trumpet, alto sax/flute, trombone, and occasional guest vocalist. CDs: "A Place I've Never Been," The Richard Sorce Project; "The Sorcerer's Accomplice," featuring Guitarist, Russ DeFilippis. Available for concerts, clubs and festivals. CD, "Closer Than Before," 11/2016 released on EverJazz Records. CD, "Samba Para a Vida," 7/1/2017 released on EverJazz Records. www.richardsorce.com

EverJazz Records, Distributed by Latin Cool Records, LLC

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Awards

ASCAP Songwriter Awards, Meet the Composer Grants, New York University Esteemed Faculty Award.


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Richard Sorce: Bossambal Brazil

Read "Bossambal Brazil" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Long-time proponent of the Brazilian style of music, pianist Richard Sorce presents his fourth album as leader with the light and graceful Bossambal Brazil, offering 14 fresh original compositions showcasing bossa novas, sambas and soft ballads, all designed to remind us that there is a gentle side of jazz which appeals to those who know how to appreciate the art. As on all his previous recordings, Sorce reassembles the same combination of instruments--piano or electric piano, bass, ...

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Richard Sorce: Samba Para a Vida

Read "Samba Para a Vida" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Samba Para a Vida--New York-based pianist and composer Richard Sorce's third album of Brazilian-styled jazz from his group the Richard Sorce Projecti--s a delicious blend of ballads, light bossa novas and sambas, all captured in a superb package of vocal and instrumental performances, resulting in one enchanting musical taste of Brasil. One thing is certain: there's plenty of music to sample on this recording, featuring fifteen original compositions including seven songs sung in Portuguese by Sao Paulo's Iara Negrete.

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The Richard Sorce Project: Closer Than Before

Read "Closer Than Before" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Lush Brazilian-flavored Latin jazz from composer/pianist/arranger Richard Sorce and his nine-piece group consisting of a five-piece rhythm section, a three-piece horn section and vocalists (augmented by occasional horn and string sections). An accomplished musician and academic, Sorce has received several Meet the Composer grants, is an ASCAP award winning composer and songwriter and the recipient of the Esteemed Faculty Award from New York University, as well as author of several books on musicianship and music theory. So it comes as ...

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Richard Sorce: A Place I've Never Been

Read "A Place I've Never Been" reviewed by Edward Blanco


New York-based pianist/Composer and educator Richard Sorce has had a life-long affinity for the Brazilian genre and the music that emanated from the periods of the 50s through the 70s which led the artist to form the Latin Jazz group, The Richard Sorce Project in 2012. Sorce and the group now present their ten-track Brazilian- styled Latin jazz album A Place I've Never Been full of light smooth- tinged rhythms and percussions reflecting the leader's preference for the music that ...

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"Richard Sorce has an original Latin-Jazz sound that is a force to be reckoned with." Gigi Brooks, Jazz times.

"...great CD; you are quite accomplished and it shows in your music." James Harber, The Jazz Intersection.

"...a great CD!"...there's a wholes different approach...it seems like you've taken so much of what you've been doing and started creating a whole new genre..." Leslie Ford, Jazz Talk.

..."A Place I've Never Been" in my mind is already a jazz classic, right up there with Brubeck, Getz, Gilberto, Ellis and Jobim." Todd Severen, Ripple Review.

Primary Instrument

Piano

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background

Ph.D. Theory, Composition Professor of Music, Theory, Composition, Song Writing, Piano, at New York University, William Paterson University, Ramapo College of New Jersey. 201-887-6175 [email protected]

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Bossambal Brazil

Everjazz Records
2021

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Samba Para a Vida

Everjazz Records
2017

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Closer Than Before

Everjazz Records
2016

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The Sorcerer's...

Everjazz Records
2015

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A Place I've Never...

Everjazz Records
2015

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A Place I've Never...

Everjazz Records
2014

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