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Mark Harvey

Mark Harvey, Lecturer in Music. Ph.D., Boston University, is a trumpeter, composer, and the music director of the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra. His original compositions can be heard on Nine Winds, Leo, Leo Lab, and Aardmuse.

He has performed in America, Germany, and Mexico, appeared with Howard McGhee, Sheila Jordan, Gil Evans, Jaki Byard, Jimmy Giuffre, and Vinny Golia, recorded with George Russell (Blue Note) and Baird Hersey (Arista/Novus), and led improvisational ensembles in creating sound tracks for three films in the historic "Treasures from the American Film Archives" DVD sets.

He has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, commissions from the Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Commissioning Project in association with the National Endowment for the Arts, the 15th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, the MIT Wind Ensemble and Festival Jazz Ensemble, and awards from the Artists' Foundation, ASCAP, and the Independent Music Awards. He has published essays and lectures widely on jazz, American music, and on the relationship of music and religion. He serves on the board of JazzBoston and is the co-chair of Jazz Week, an annual celebration of jazz in the greater Boston area.

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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Faces Of Souls

Read "Faces Of Souls" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Si avvicina al cinquantesimo anno di attività l'Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, fondata nel 1973 da Mark Harvey e ancora diretta dall'inossidabile trombettista, compositore e bandleader di Boston. In questo nuovo disco--il decimo pubblicato con la Leo Records e registrato live in varie occasioni--ritroviamo il consueto eclettismo della formazione, capace di passare da quadri in libera improvvisazione a concitazioni rock anche in uno stesso brano. Per la verità stavolta i contrasti sono più smussati e tendono a prevalere compostezza ...

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The Mark Harvey Group: A Rite for All Souls

Read "A Rite for All Souls" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Due anni pima di dar vita alla sua creatura per eccellenza, l'Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, il trombettista bostoniano Mark Harvey si era reso protagonista alla testa del suo quartetto dell'epoca della memorabile performance oggi quanto mai meritoriamente dissotterrata dall'oblio grazie all'Americas Musicwords. Era il 31 ottobre 1971 allorché all'Old West Church di Boston andava in scena questo rito improvvisativo totale e liberatorio, nel nome di una pratica in quegli anni tutt'altro che usuale. Lungo i novantasette minuti di ...

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Mark Harvey Group: A Rite for All Souls

Read "A Rite for All Souls" reviewed by Troy Dostert


There are certain crises in which “mere" protest just doesn't seem sufficient. Whether talking about climate change, the seemingly unceasing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or (to take 2020's signature example) the ongoing challenges of racism in the criminal justice system, the perceived need to resort to something more dramatic than voting or taking part in a march or demonstration naturally arises. If the forces arrayed against us aren't simply unjust or harmful, but might in fact be classified as ...

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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: 40th Annual Christmas Concert -- Dec. 15, 2012

Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: 40th Annual Christmas Concert -- Dec. 15, 2012

Source: Mary Curtin

Jerry Edwards, Grace Hughes, and Donna Hewitt-Didham, vocalists Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 8:00 pm Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116 Admission: $15 Information: 617-776-8778 or 617-452-3205 Praised by CultureJazz.Fr (France) for “expansive harmony, brilliant music...discipline, openness, and freedom,” the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will present its 40th Annual Christmas Concert, a Boston holiday tradition. http://www.aardvarkjazz.com The concert, Music in the Spirit of the Season, will feature the world premieres of two pieces ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

A Rite for All Souls

Americas Musicworks
2020

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Faces Of Souls

Leo Records
2020

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A Rite for All Souls,...

Americas Musicworks
2020

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Democratic Vistas

Leo Records
2018

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American Agonistes

Leo Records
2008

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