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About Eugene Marlow, Ph.D.

Eugene Marlow is a composer/arranger, producer, presenter, performer, author/journalist, and educator.


Composer/Arranger (Jazz & Classical)

P> Dr. Marlow’s jazz compositions include charts for big band in various genres, plus ballads, swing tunes, blues, and Latin-jazz flavored compositions for small ensembles. He has also arranged numerous Jewish liturgical pieces in various jazz and neo-classical styles.

His jazz compositions have been performed by theBMI Jazz Composers Workshop Big Band, the Primary Colors Trio, the SYOTOS Latin/Jazz Band with Chris Washburne, The Numinous Orchestra, The Andy LaVerne Trio, The Trevor Day Big Band, the Manhattan School of Music Latin Jazz Orchestra, the New School Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra, the George Gee Big Band, and the Bobby Sanabria Big Band.

His big band chart “El Aché de Sanabria en Moderación” appears on Bobby Sanabria’s Grammy-nominated album “Big Band Urban Folktales” (2007 JazzHeads). Marlow signed with 3-2 Music Publishing to distribute this chart to educational institutions globally.

His classical works include fugues and “chansons” for solo piano, waltzes, lullabies, songs, string quartets, duets for flutes, various strings and piano, several purely electronic works, chamber works for winds, and winds and strings, and pieces for brass. His larger classical works include a suite (in progress) for chamber orchestra and an all strings chamber orchestra work based on octatonic scales, entitled “Undiminished.”

Classical solo and chamber works have been performed by the Kandinsky and Corigliano String Quartets, the Circadia Woodwind Quintet, the Sylvan Winds, the Alaria Chamber Ensemble, the Damocles Trio, Musica di autori Americana dalla New York University (Italy), and virtuoso pianistsNataliya Medvedovskaya, Natalie Synhaivsky and Nada Loutfi.

An electronic three voice serial fugue--“48 Rows in One Minute”--was featured in the November 2003 performance of 60x60, a concert organized by VoxNovus (New York City). The 60x60 project also received a performance in Bucharest, Romania and at Brooklyn College (New York City), both in March 2004.

A second electronic piece (“Arturo’s Reverie”) based on an improvised theme by jazz pianist Arturo O’Farrill for Marlow’s “Wonderful Discovery” album, was choreographed by Jeramy Zimmerman/CatScratch Theatre at Galapolus Performance Space (Brooklyn, NY) in September 2008.

In 2010 an electronic version of “Raices” performed by Bobby Sanabria on Marlow’s “Wonderful Discovery” CD received performances in New York City, Montreal and Toronto, Canada, Maribor, Slovenia, Denton, Texas, Lodève, France, Berlin, Germany, and St. Louis, MO as part of 60x60’s “Sanguine Mix,”

Marlow has studied with jazz with Andy LaVerne and Marty Sheller (jazz composition), Milt Hinton and Laurence Hobgood (jazz performance), and Manny Albam, Michael Abene, Jim McNeely, Grammy-winner Maria Schneider, and multi-Grammy nominee Bobby Sanabria (big band composition/orchestration).

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Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble: A Fresh Take

Read "A Fresh Take" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


A Fresh Take is Eugene Marlow's third album of songs from the Hebrew tradition. It builds on the foundation of the excellent Celebrations (MEII Enterprises, 2010) but rather than extending the Heritage Ensemble's repertoire still further, it reworks the tunes on the 2006 debut, Making The Music Our Own (MEII Enterprises). It's unusual to find a band revisiting its back catalogue so early in its recording career, but keyboardist/leader Marlow has a clear justification for the move, explaining that the ...

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Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble: Celebrations

Read "Celebrations" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Celebrations, the Heritage Ensemble's second album following Making The Music Our Own (MEII Enterprises, 2006), is subtitled Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble Interprets Festive Melodies From The Hebraic Songbook. The review copy arrived with a polite but serious covering letter rather than the usual hyperbolic press release. The album's closing track is a lecture by bandleader and keyboardist Marlow on “The Heritage Ensemble: its history, repertoire and philosophy." Not a typical jazz recording, then. A preservation project for musicologists, not fans? ...

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Arturo O'Farrill and Friends: Wonderful Discovery

Read "Wonderful Discovery" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Long before the “Wonderful Discovery that constitutes the music and the musicians on this CD, Eugene Marlow had discovered Latin music. The muse hit him way back in London, England in the '40s. Jump cut to the '90s and Marlow was listening to Tito Puente. From then on, there were quite a few Latin bands that came his way as a member of the Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Concert Series committee at Baruch College. Among them were the Latin-Jazz All ...

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Eugene Marlow: Making the Music Our Own

Read "Making the Music Our Own" reviewed by Jim Santella


Jazz pianist and composer Eugene Marlow reinterprets songs from the Jewish vernacular on Making the Music Our Own, along with a mainstream trio and quintet. The first five tracks were recorded in 1986 with a bassist and drummer whose names have been lost. The next four were recorded in 1995 along with the personnel listed. Marlow's interpretations carry a deep, exotic flavor that recalls the lasting thrill Duke Ellington and His Orchestra gave the world through Juan Tizol's “Caravan. Other ...

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Recording

"A Fresh Take" Latest CD From Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble

"A Fresh Take" Latest CD From Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble

Source: Eugene Marlow

NEW YORK: In mid-June, MEII Enterprises, Eugene Marlow's indie label, will release A Fresh Take, its 7th album in as many years. “A Fresh Take," a collection of nine tracks performed by Marlow's Heritage Ensemble, is a re-record of the group's 2006 debut album Making the Music Our Own. Why a re-record? According to Marlow: “In the last few years, The Heritage Ensemble's personnel have changed. The arrangements has not only grown in number, they have also evolved with the ...

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Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble with Special Guest Bobby Sanabria Plays at the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium (NYC)

Eugene Marlow&#39s Heritage Ensemble with Special Guest Bobby Sanabria Plays at the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium (NYC)

Source: Michael Ricci

Composer/Leader Eugene Marlow&#39s quintet The Heritage Ensemble is devoted to the concert performance of well-known Hebraic liturgical and folksong melodies in various jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and neo-classical styles. (See below for latest review.) The group's inaugural CD "Making the Music Our Own" is available at cdbaby.com.

The Heritage Ensemble: Eugene Marlow (founder/pianist) with Todd Bashore (saxophones), Frank Wagner (bass), Cristian Rivera (percussion), and guest artist, multi-Grammy nominee Bobby Sanabria (drums)

"Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble's 'Making the Music Our Own' is ...

"Celebrations: The Heritage Ensemble Interprets Festive Melodies from the Hebraic Songbook" is a superb collection of some traditional Jewish folk songs performed in a stylish new way and original compositions that are sure to become essential at Jewish festivals and holiday celebrations to come.

Sari N. Kent The Celebrity Café Reviews

EUGENE MARLOW’S HERITAGE ENSEMBLE/"Celebrations": With Bobby Sanabria hanging out do you think this is going to be anything like the typical Klezmer album? Every Jewish kid has these songs stapled to their DNA, and the more rebellious ones grew to hate them as corny but the Afro-Cubanization of the holiday of the lights will really get to even them after they get past the familiar core riffs

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

A Fresh Take

MEII Enterprises
2012

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A Fresh Take

MEII Enterprises
2011

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Celebrations

MEII Enterprises
2010

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Wonderful Discovery

MEII Enterprises
2007

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Making the Music Our...

MEII Enterprises
2006

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