A Jazz/Latin composition by Diane Moser, arrangement by Russ Vines, sung by Gradie Stone with Diane Moser's Composers Big Band for a joint 50th Birthday Celebration for Gradie and Diane, July 2007.

It's You

Composed by our lead alto saxophonist, Ed Xiques, who composed this in 2006 for our Freestyle concert at 12 Miles West Theater, Bloomfield, NJ. We've continued to play this on a regular basis. This recording is from our Oct 2011 Peace Concert.

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Composed by our trombonist Matt Haviland in 2006 for our Freestyle Concert. This recording is from our concert “In The Spirit of Mingus” a concert series in tribute to Charles Mingus at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music(New York, NY) Feb 2009
Featuring Guest Artists:Composer and New School alum Lenart Krecic, Vocalist Marcelino Feliciano and Video DJ Schiller 

Comes A Time

This is a composition bythe wonderful composer and trombonist Caleb Rumley, who wrote this for our Oct 2016 Annual Peace Concert Tribute to Daniel Pearl World Music Days.

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Pearls

Composed by Ed Xiques and recorded by Diane Moser's Composers Big Band 1999 at Tierney's Tavern in Montclair, NJ. It features solos by Diane Moser-piano, Evan Barker-trumpet and Larry Maltz-guitar. It is the first track on the cd "Diane Moser's Composers Big Band:Live at Tierney's Tavern" released in 2000 on the New Arts label.

1 Triple Blues

Composed by Ed Xiques in memory of his brother Greg. Recorded live at Tierney's Tavern 2003, Diane Moser's Composers Big Band.

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Remembering Greg

Composed by Ed Xiques, recorded live at Tierney's Tavern, Montclair, NJ 2003, performed by Diane Moser's Composers Big Band.

Once Upon A Time

Composed by Ed Xiques and recorded live at 12 Miles West Theater, Bloomfield, NJ by Diane Moser's Composers Big Band on their "Freestyle" concert featuring Chad Moser-turntables, Mike Lee-tenor sax, Larry Maltz-guitar and Diane Moser-piano. This was a special concert where each composer in the band composed a new piece based on Hip Hop, Rap and Spoken Word. There is a glitch in the recording, I believe a loose chord from the sound board, but hang in there, the music comes back right away!

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composition by Diane Moser, featuring Diane Moser's Composers Big Band, Andy Eulau-bass, based on a 4 measure riff, band members play free improvisational duets with horn backgrounds comprised of traditional and graphic notation.

Flipped Kitty in the City Live at Trumpets Jazz Club

Mvt 2 from my suite Music of the Spheres. My ode to Pythagoras, based on the overtone series. The recording is from a performance at the Meadowlands Environmental Center in Lyndhurst, NJ April, 10 2013

Intervallic Dreams

Mvt 1 from my suite Music of the Spheres. This mvt gets it start from a note currently emanating from a black hole, a Bb 57 octaves below middle C. The inteplay between the sections of the band represents "Cosmic Strings" which are likely to have occurred during the earliest moments of the universe's evolution, just after cosmological inflation, that are partially wrapped on compact cycles associated to extra spacetime dimensions so that only one non-compact dimension remains The recording is from a performance at the Meadowlands Environmental Center in Lyndhurst, NJ April, 10 2013

Cosmic Strings

DIANE MOSER’S COMPOSERS BIG BAND
Musical Director/Pianist/Contributing Composer
A 17 piece big band formed for the purpose of presenting new music. Presenting monthly concerts  beginning in January of 1997, features the music of 9 composers in the band and guest  composers/performers which have included; Frank Bennett, Judy Bady, Jackie Cain, Richie Cole,Richard DeRosa,Mark Dresser, Satoko Fujii, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Calvin Hill, Mike Holober, Howard Johnson, Sy Johnson, Bill Kirchner, Oliver Lake, Tina Marsh, Andy McKee, Jim McNeely, Bill Mobley, Kirk Nurock, Frank Perowsky, Rufus Reid, Michele Rosewoman,J.C. Sanford, Joey Sellers, Norman Simmons, Lisa Sokolov, Marvin Stamm, Michael Jefrey Stevens, Rory Stewart, Natsuki Tamura, Sue Terry, Walter Thompson, Noriko Ueda, Russ Vines, Melissa Walker, Matt Wilson, Eliot Zigmund and many others.  
Montclair, NJ (1997-Present)
Highlighted Performances
Trumpets Jazz Club (Montclair, NJ 3/11, 6/11,10/11 Daniel Pearl World Music Days, 3/12)
Lake George Jazz Festival (Lake George,NY) Sept 2009
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music-“In The Spirit of Mingus” (NY,NY) Feb 2009
Trumpets Jazz Club (Montclair,NJ) November 2003-Jan 2009 (monthly appearances)
12 Miles West Theatre “Freestyle-a jazz/spoken word/video collaboration” (Bloomfield,NJ) June 2006
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark,NJ) August 2003
Cecil's Jazz Club (West Orange,NJ) July 2003
Burgdorff Cultural Center (Maplewood,NJ) Oct 2003
Jersey Jazz By the Lake Festival (Cranford, NJ) Sept.  1999
Featured alongside Marian McPartland and Dominique Eade
Montclair Jazz Series (Montclair,NJ) June 1998
Tierney's Tavern (Montclair,NJ) Jan 1997-June 2003 (monthly appearances)

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