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Feet That Danced

Στίχοι : Ευτυχία Παπαγιαννοπούλου
Μουσική : Απόστολος Καλδάρας
Εναρμόνιση: Δημήτρης Μπάκουλης
Πρώτη εκτέλεση : Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης
Δίσκος: 78 στροφές-Απ΄τα ψηλά στα χαμηλά
Έτος κυκλοφορίας: 1958

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The 2017 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra plays “Chicken Bones” by Los Angeles pianist Luca Mendoza at the 60th Monterey Jazz Festival, Sunday, September 17, 2017 in the Arena.

Mendoza received the 2017 Gerald Wilson Award for the winning piece from the Next Generation Jazz Festival’s composition competition. Mendoza was also accepted to the 2017 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. for the second year in a row.

Luca Mendoza, 18, is a classical and jazz pianist and composer. Luca is the 2016 National YoungArts Foundation Finalist for Jazz Piano, a 2015/2016 YoungArts Merit Winner for Jazz Composition, and a LA Music Center Spotlight Grand Prize Finalist.

As an Los Angeles Philharmonic Composer Fellow, he has participated in workshops with top-notch composers and individual talks with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. With the program, his compositions have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Calder Quartet and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, as well as members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and ICE.

A two-time member of the Monterey Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, he has received two Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival Outstanding Solo Awards as well as two Gerald Wilson Awards for composition.

He has received seven DownBeat Magazine Student Music Awards (in combo composition, large ensemble composition, and combo performance), a 2016 Herb Alpert ASCAP award, and was a finalist in the 2017 Jazz Education Network Composer Showcase. He has also been accepted into the 2017 NARAS Grammy Band, the 2014 and 2015 Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colonies, and the 2015 Vail Jazz Workshop. 

Luca will be majoring in Classical Composition at the University of Southern California in the fall.

About the Gerald Wilson Award

Each year since 2005 at the Next Generation Jazz Festival, the Big Band Composition Competition is open to student composers currently enrolled in high school.

Compositions are judged by college-level music faculty, and the winning composer receives the Gerald Wilson Award, named in honor of the late legendary composer, arranger and trumpeter who was a friend of Monterey Jazz Festival for many years.

The winning composition is performed on the Jimmy Lyons Stage in the Arena at the annual Monterey Jazz Festival by the Festival's all-star student band, the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and the student composer is given the Gerald Wilson Award.

Luca Mendoza, "Chicken Bones" at MJF60 (2017)

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por Javier Barría / cover de Joan Manuel Serrat.
Secuenciado y grabado en julio y agosto de 2004, estudio Yendo de la cama al living de mi casa. Voces grabadas en abril de 2012, estudio portátil Yendo de la cama al suelo.

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