UNC Jazz Press

Refeshing Update of a classic. Very playable ballad treatment with bossa-nova improv chorus. Other orchestral colors include muted brass, a cappella winds, and mallet use for the drummer. Recorded on brand new "DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra CD "Quotient" (03/08 release) as flugel feature, though originally scored as vehicle for lead alto.

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State College, PA is home base for composer and saxophonist RICK HIRSCH and his family. He is an active performer involved with several local and regional ensembles, performing some 150 dates a year. In addition to writing for his own bands, Rick writes a good deal of music on commission. Notable clients include Yusef Lateef, tumpeter Eddie Henderson, vocalist Jackie Allen, the Osland Saxophone Quartet, the Capitol Quartet, the University of Kentucky Wind Ensemble, and the Penn State University Marching Blue Band. He has been awarded two Fellowships in Jazz Composition from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Lastly, Rick is rostered with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts as an artist-educator. He is a graduate of University of Massachusetts-Amherst (B.A.) and a Northern Illinois University (M.M.), where he studies with Lynn Klock, Jeff Holmes, Yusef Lateef, Ron Modell, Ronald Carter, and Glenn Kostur.