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Clockwise The Music of Cedar Walton

Ben Markley Big Band

Clockwise The Music of Cedar Walton

Format: CD
Label: OA2 Records
UPC: 0805552213928
Catnr: OA2 22139
Release date: 10 March 2017
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Label
OA2 Records
UPC
0805552213928
Catalogue number
OA2 22139
Release date
10 March 2017
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Pianist Ben Markley, along with special guest trumpeter Terell Stafford, celebrates one of the more influential and beloved figures in jazz through this unique project, showcasing many of the late pianist and composer Cedar Walton’s most revered tunes through new arrangements for big band. Performing iconic compositions such as "Hindsight," "Bolivia," and "Holy Land," Markley brings together fellow faculty members from the University of Wyoming and top-flight Denver-area musicians to produce an honest and swinging recording that honors Cedar Walton while presenting his music in a bright new light. “...to hear a big band's interpretation of Cedar's music has to be the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life!...I know Cedar is beaming at the results!!” - Martha Walton.
Zusammen mit anderen Mitgliedern der Fakultät der University of Wyoming und erstklassigen Musikern aus Denver präsentiert Pianist Ben Markley ein Album, das Cedar Waltons Musik in einem hellen neuen Licht erscheinen lässt.
Markley feiert mit diesem einzigartigen Projekt zusammen mit Special Guest und Trompeter Terell Stafford einen der einflussreichsten und beliebtesten Künstler des Jazz durch neue Arrangements für Big Band.

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Ben Markley (piano)

Ben Markley is a pianist, composer, arranger, author, educator, and leader of the Ben Markley Big Band, a daring ensemble known for their creative takes on beloved modern and contemporary jazz classics. Fresh off the heels of Clockwise: The Music of Cedar Walton, Markley tackles his most ambitious project yet: Ari’s Funhouse, a big band album featuring the music of drummer Ari Hoenig, with Hoenig himself in the drum chair. The album received great critical acclaim and was selected as one of the best 4 star rated albums of 2022 by DownBeat magazine. Other OA2 releases include 2024's Closing Time by his Live Edge Trio featuring the great vibraphonist Steve Nelson, and Slow Play and Basic Economy, both by his own Quartet. Markley is active...
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Ben Markley is a pianist, composer, arranger, author, educator, and leader of the Ben Markley Big Band, a daring ensemble known for their creative takes on beloved modern and contemporary jazz classics. Fresh off the heels of Clockwise: The Music of Cedar Walton, Markley tackles his most ambitious project yet: Ari’s Funhouse, a big band album featuring the music of drummer Ari Hoenig, with Hoenig himself in the drum chair. The album received great critical acclaim and was selected as one of the best 4 star rated albums of 2022 by DownBeat magazine. Other OA2 releases include 2024's Closing Time by his Live Edge Trio featuring the great vibraphonist Steve Nelson, and Slow Play and Basic Economy, both by his own Quartet.
Markley is active as a composer and arranger with many big band and vocal jazz charts published through UNC Jazz Press as well as his own website. Recent arranging commissions include the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, and Wyoming Jazz Educators All-State Jazz Band. In 2023 Markley published Cedar: The Life and Music of Cedar Walton (University of North Texas Press). Markley conducted more than seventy-five interviews with friends and family members, musicians who played with or were otherwise influenced by Walton, and industry figures such as club owners. Musicians interviewed include such stars as Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson, and Ron Carter. Walton’s wife Martha shared her extensive archives of photos, ephemera such as fliers and tour itineraries, and letters to inform Markley’s writing which is the definite biography on Walton.
Markley’s book A Practical Approach to Improvisation - The David Hazeltine Method was published by Jamey Aebersold Jazz in December of 2014. It documents David Hazeltine’s process of creating etudes from transcriptions.
Markley is an active performer in the Denver-metropolitan area and along the front range. He currently teaches jazz piano and serves as department chair of the music department for the University of Wyoming.

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