AnyWhen Ensemble
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: oh....you know | No Comments »
Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble is a part of a small but exciting group of ensembles fusing the jazz and classical traditions together into a new and vibrant music that respects and builds upon its sources. The ensemble draws its influence from musical genres ranging from classical and new chamber music, traditional and contemporary jazz, and free improvised music, as well as rock, electronica and folk music. The music is intimate and personal, blending the spontaneity of improvised music with the balance and form of chamber music.
The word “anywhen”, which has largely dropped out of use in modern English, means “at any time.” The word expresses a sense of mobility and adaptability; a confidence in flexibility that carries with it a great feeling of optimism and possibility. The composer and the improvisor are set by the world around them on an ever-changing path and use their music to follow that path, wherever it leads.
This album is an effort to create music that moves.
Hear samples of the album at http://douglasdetrick.com/Douglas_Detrick/AnyWhenEnsemble.html.
“Walking Across” is a collection of original compositions performed by his chamber jazz group Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble that feature improvisation and composition woven together into an engaging new music that lies somewhere between chamber music and jazz.
Douglas Detrick – Trumpet, Composition
Hashem Assadullahi – Alto and Soprano Saxophone
Shirley Hunt – Cello
Steve Vacchi – Bassoon
Ryan Biesack – Drums and Percussion
Douglas Detrick, 26, is a composer and trumpet player based in Eugene, Oregon. Equally at home as a performer and a composer, he is a versatile and eclectic musician. Detrick has released two recordings in 2009. “Walking Across” is a collection of original compositions performed by his chamber jazz group Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble that feature improvisation and composition woven together into an engaging new music that lies somewhere between chamber music and jazz. The AnyWhen Ensemble, in addition to its debut recording on 8Bells Records, completed a self-produced west coast tour, including a performance in Seattle featuring composer-pianist Wayne Horvitz, who played with the group on one of his own compositions and one by Detrick. Detrick also released “The Turning Point” with his jazz quintet the Douglas Detrick Quintet. This album expands on and honors the jazz tradition with an emphasis on the possibilities of integrating composition with improvisation.
Detrick has been commissioned by Beta Collide, a leading new music ensemble led by trumpeter Brian McWhorter, of the Meridian Arts Ensemble and Grammy winning flutist Molly Barth, formerly of Eighth Blackbird, who commissioned and gave the world premiere of Detrick’s composition “Ecology” for flute, trumpet, piano and double bass at the University of Oregon’s Music Today Festival in February of 2009. Detrick received an honorable mention in the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards in 2009 for his composition “Cape Creek”, written for and performed by Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble. Detrick was a winner of a 2007 Downbeat Student Music Award for his arrangement of Duke Ellington’s “Single Petal of A Rose”. This piece was recorded by the Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble and received its public premiere with the Wenatchee Valley Symphony of Wenatchee, WA. Douglas was the winner of the Meridian Arts Ensemble’s first Composition Contest in 2007. The Meridian Arts Ensemble premiered Douglas’ brass quintet, “As the Crow Flies” in a recital at the Manhattan School of Music in September of 2007 and performed the piece in Bulgaria and Mexico.
