Chimes - Neil Carson

Traditional; arrangement by Sarah Jerrom. The Yeats Project: Sarah Jerrom (vocals), Linnea Thacker (violin), Aleksandar Gajic (viola), Andrew Downing (cello), Julia Hambleton (clarinet), Carissa Neufeld (piano), Rob McBride (double bass), Ernesto Cervini (drums). Recorded live at The Music Gallery on Mar. 16, 2013 by Paul Hodge.

The Yeats Project: She Moved Through The Fair

Floating down the river on inner tubes, the sun smashes down the heat, but we're cool. Passing the drinks, hats and sunglasses. A smile from Anna... and we're good.

Cooling Off

Promise Ring (Arrangement #1 Demo)

Fall Semester 2015 Poetry Project for Gary Lindsay's Jazz Writers: Take a poem and write music to it.
Poem by Ezra Pound,
Music written, arranged, mixed and mastered by Russ Spiegel
Frost Extensions Singers: Linda Alvarado, Alex Manfredo, Danielle Wertz, Neil Carson, Elliot Weeks
Soprano Saxophone: Phil Doyle
Guitar: Russ Spiegel
Piano: Elliot Courtois
Electric and Acoustic Bass: Ken Ge
Drums: Kyle Swan
Percussion: Murph Aucamp
String Quartet: Steffen Zeichner, Ariele Macadangdang - violins; Vivian Torres - viola; Boris Papadiuk - cello
Many thanks to Gary Lindsay and Frost jazz writers and musicians!

The Poetry Project - Come My Cantilations (Ezra Pound/Russ Spiegel)

Four movements of a string quartet, written and performed in 1978 in Santa Cruz, California.

Qtt2A

Words by W.B. Yeats
Conducted by Tom Richards
with 
Sarah Jerrom (vocals/composer)
Kevin Turcotte (flugelhorn)
Julia Hambleton (bass clarinet)
Linnea Thacker (violin)
Aleksandar Gajic (viola)
Andrew Downing (cello)
Rob McBride (double bass)
Carissa Neufeld (piano)
Ernesto Cervini (drums)
Recorded by Paul Hodge at the Music Gallery during rehearsal on Mar. 15, 2013

Adam's Curse (The Yeats Project)

Russ Spiegel is a commissioned composer and arranger as well as a guitarist, bandleader, writer, producer, and actor. He received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, received a Master’s degree in jazz performance from the City College of New York and his doctorate in Jazz Composition at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, where he was a Henry Mancini Institute Fellow. Russ has released several CDs, scored music for film, run workshops and seminars, and has appeared in a number of feature films and television shows as both a musician and actor.

The Poetry Project - Come My Cantilations (Ezra Pound/Russ Spiegel)

Russ Spiegel

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