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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11247/
Please join us on Saturday, December 18, 2004 from 8-10pm at Slought Foundation for a live concert by Tom Varner's Swimming with Tom Varner (composer and French horn), Steve Wilson (alto saxophone), Tony Malaby (tenor saxophone), Cameron Brown (bass) and Tom Rainey (drums). This concert will feature the premiere of two new extended suites, commissioned by the Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation's 'New Works: Creation and Presentation Program.'
Program:
Suite One: Hope (2004)
Part 1: Slinky
Solo/Duo Interlude
Part 2: Waltz for the Tired, Proud Worriers
Solo/Duo Interlude
Part 3: Mele
Short Intermission
Suite Two: Fear (2004)
Part 1: Prelude
Solo/Duo Interlude
Part 2: Waiting for Jack
Solo/Duo Interlude
Part 3: Fear and Trembling
Tom Varner has distinguished himself as both the foremost jazz French horn player of his generation as well as a highly creative arranger within small-group jazz. Influenced by the great Julius Watkins (with whom he studied privately), Varner got a degree from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Ran Blake, George Russell, and Jaki Byard. His compositions can partake of the serialism of Berg and Webern as well as Thelonious Monk’s angular bop structures and Ornette Coleman’ss pantonal melodicism. He has performed and recorded with Lee Konitz, Bobby Previte, Mark Dresser, Steve Lacy, Dave Liebman, George Gruntz, John Zorn, Bobby Watson, LaMonte Young, and Miles Davis with Quincy Jones at Montreux ‘91, appearing on over 50 albums. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has won polls in Down Beat (1983, 1998, 1999) and Jazz Times (1990, 1993).
Tom Varner’s Swimming includes alto saxophonist Steve Wilson (Chick Corea, Dave Holland), tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby (Fred Hersch, Paul Motion, Charlie Haden), bassist Cameron Brown (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman) and Tom Rainey (Tim Berne, Fred Hersch).
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