An Imperfect Storm

An Imperfect Storm

The Large Jazz Ensemble Compositions of Andy Jaffe

Andy Jaffe composer
The Bill Lowe / Andy Jaffe Repertory Big Band

Release Date: May 25, 2010
Catalog #: BR8907
Format: Digital & Physical
21st Century
Jazz
Orchestral
Big Band
Orchestra
Saxophone

Andy Jaffe’s precise-yet-swinging big band jazz compositions shine on his premiere Big Round release, from a playful rendition of Nat King Cole’s Straighten Up and Fly Right to the sprawling Porticulture suite.

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Artist Information

Andy Jaffe

Andy Jaffe

Composer

Andy Jaffe is the Lyell B. Clay Artist in Residence and Director of Jazz Activities at Williams College, as well as Artistic Director of the Williamstown Jazz Festival. An active jazz composer, performer, and recording artist, Jaffe has been a leader in jazz pedagogy for over twenty-five years, having taught at the Berklee College of Music (1977-81), The University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate program in Afro-American Music and Jazz (1994-98), the Institut Musical deformation Professionelle in Nimes, France (1984), Amherst College (1987-99), Tufts University(1992-93), Smith College(1997-99), and Williams (since 1989). He runs the jazz ensembles and teaches courses in jazz theory and improvisation, jazz arranging and composition, and on the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane.