Announcing "Romance", the new cd on Yestereve Records by trombonist and composer Jacob Garchik, featuring Dan Weiss on drums and Jacob Sacks on piano, with special guest Judith Berkson, vocals.
You can buy the cd from my website for $15, including shipping, or from me personally at one of my shows for less money.
More information, along with sound samples and ephemera, is available at
www.jacobgarchik.com
Our CD Release party will be Thursday, April 10th, 8pm at Barbes in Brooklyn, NY.
About Jacob Garchik:
Trombonist and composer Jacob Garchik, born and raised in San Francisco, has lived in New York since the mid 90's. He has been called a "Trombonist-to-watch" by Downbeat magazine (December 2006) and his 2008 album, Romance, was called "Odd and excellent, taut with paradox" by Ben Ratliff in the New York Times.
He has toured Europe and North America extensively with the acclaimed Lee Konitz New Nonet, and has played with Lee since 1997. Since 2006 Jacob has contributed arrangements and transcriptions for the Kronos Quartet of music from China, Korea, Iraq, Iran, and Thelonius Monk. An active freelance trombonist, he plays with groups including the Ohad Talmor/Steve Swallow Sextet, the Judith Berkson Group, the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, the Ben Gerstein Collective, Slavic Soul Party!, the Four Bags, and Justin Mullens & The Delphian Jazz Orchestra.
Besides playing new music with many of his creative but unknown peers, Jacob has worked with contemporary composers Joe Maneri, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Billy Martin, and James Tenney, choreographers Yoshiko Chuma and Anita Cheng, and the Theatre of a Two-headed Calf. He has also worked with an astonishing number of New York's "Downtown" Klezmer and Gypsy punk groups including Golem, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars, Metropolitan Klezmer, Isle of Klezbos, Greg Wall's Simcha All-Stars, Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh, Judith Berkson's East River Orchestra, What I Like About Jew, German Goldenshteyn, Michael Alpert, Slavic Soul Party, Eugene Hutz and Gogol Bordello.
He has recorded about two dozen cds for labels such as Pirhana, New World Records, Omnitone, Tzadik, Fresh Sound New Talent, and Palmetto.
Jacob also plays accordion, bass trombone, tuba, computer, and piano.
Here's what the New York Times thought today:
“Romance” (Yestereve), an odd and excellent new record by the young jazz trombonist Jacob Garchik, is taut with paradox. This music sounds free-improvised until you make out the tightly woven written parts inside it, which doesn’t take long. The subversion of roles further throws you off: sometimes the piano accompanying the trombone solo is both wilder and quieter than the trombone solo. Sometimes the rhythm is rumbling and repetitious while the melody is soft and lovely. It’s a weirdly proportioned little band, with Mr. Garchik on trombone, Jacob Sacks on piano and Dan Weiss on drums; Judith Berkson comes in twice, singing tense duets with the trombone in slow and beautiful art songs. (Ben Ratliff)
For much more visit
www.jacobgarchik.com and
www.myspace.com/jacobgarchik
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j
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