This is amazing, I need more of it in my life! Learned about this from Jad Abumrad. Is there more?

streaming services on Friday. pre-save from my TikTok/instagram bio so we can blow this up <3

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Inspired by some of my favorite licks that Charles Mingus ever wrote, this solo baritone saxophone piece is meant to swing hard. 

Mingus wrote and performed some of the most influential jazz music in our history, and his colossal library of repertoire spans an enormous breadth and depth of emotions. The passion, the rage, the soul, the fiery energy. Mingus was a man possessed. This piece serves to be my own small reflection in tribute to the "Angry Man of Jazz."

Live world premiere performed by the composer herself, Shelley Washington, in November of 2016.

MO'INGUS

An early exercises recorded in 2017. I made it on a Make Noise 0 Coast, Yamaha DX, Strymon BlueSky, and a Tascam DR-44WL.

Appears on the album: An Ornamental Light Glows Beneath the Tinted Window, available here: seanclancy.bandcamp.com/album/an-orna…nted-window-2

The Canal Held Up A Mirror

"The Farthest" - Words and Music written by Shelley Washington

Commissioned by Dianne Berkun Menaker for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus "Silent Voices: If You Listen", April 2018. Performed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus accompanied by members of the ICE Ensemble.

. . . . .

I wanted to write a piece that would comment on the desires that many young people currently share; wants that span the personal “when I grow up...” to the public “in the future, we...” I also wanted my piece to ring true for any person during the era that they were young - their dreams for the future, taking risks in hopes of stepping closer to their goals, and forming alliances against adversaries. We as people have always wanted to be some form of good, and for our futures to be brighter than our present. Individuals’ belief of what constitutes goodness has the power to write laws, create religions, and drive culture. This desire to be personally better, to intentionally grow into our collective best, has steered the rise and fall of every empire. The Farthest is intended to be sung by the voices of now as a call both forward and backwards in time; a shout of gratitude back to those who challenged the wrongs of their time, and a call forward to all listeners to never give up hope, and to strive for being their best.

. . . .

The Series
Silent Voices is a multimedia, multi-composer, and multi-year series of concert works with spoken word conceived, produced and performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Silent Voices amplifies the voices of those silenced or marginalized in our communities and harnesses the power of young people to be instruments of change. The Chorus has commissioned a dynamic group of innovative artists to interpret rich personal stories and historical narratives exploring contemporary themes of identity, orientation, status, boundaries, and belonging.

This Show
If You Listen, the second installment in the Silent Voices series, builds on the success of its 2017 premiere at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House, co-commissioned with Brooklyn Academy of Music, and WQXR, New York. In Silent Voices: If You Listen, eight composers, all women, collaborate with the choristers in confronting the challenges of division and categorization, racism, sexism, social and economic disparity, immigration, our environment, and threats to our understanding of truth, as we prepare to move towards a more inclusive and compassionate vision of the future. Featured composers include Julia Adolphe, Olga Bell, Anna Clyne, Paola Prestini, Toshi Reagon, Shaina Taub, Shelley Washington, Bora Yoon.

The Farthest  - for SSSAAA Choir

Removed Yung Bans part because uhh i muthafuckin ass didn't like his part it kinda ruined the song, heres the original
https://soundcloud.com/jasiah999/jasiah-shenanigans-feat-yung-bans-prod-ronny-j

JASIAH - SHENANIGANS (without yung bans)

"Pull Up" for Soprano or Tenor Saxophone 

Commissioned as a result of the 2018 Solo Saxophone Commissioning Consortium with Samantha Etchegary.

Performed by Greg Bruce, tenor saxophone. Recorded by Aida Khorsandi at the University of Toronto. Mixed and Mastered by Andrew Noseworthy.

Music video by Theo Woodward: https://youtu.be/bVJLyuTnuBQ

From the album, "Consortium Works: Solo Saxophone" on people | places | records
https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/consortium-works-solo-saxophone

Pull Up

A remix of the crossing sign voice that haunts me when I sleep

Princeton University Washington Walk Sign TRAP REMIX

Andrew Noseworthy - I'm Sure You Will

Loudness warning! Please protect your ears.

Recorded live at home.

home 10.30.19

Covid nights - session 1

Tracklist 
Yumeji's Theme - Theme from 'in the Mood for Love by Shigeru Umebayashi
Our Love Comes Back by James Blake
Digital Lion by James Blake
Twice by Little Dragon
Queen by Perfume Genius
Colomb by Nicolas Jaar
Avalanche by Just Friends
13 Pieces for Piano, Op.76: 2. Etude by Jean Sibelius, Jian Wang, Göran Söllscher
Cumbia del Olvido by Nicola Cruz
Abrazos De Una Rosa by Hermanos Gutierrez
Loved Ones (Saudades) by Armando Young
Mountains by Charlotte Day Wilson
Keep The Faith by Moon Boots, Nic Hanson
Smoke Rings by Les Paul, Mary Ford
My Friend by The Ladles
New York - Mad Rush by Philip Glass, Thibault Cauvin, Adélaïde Ferrière
Lights in the rain forest (Aurora en el bosque de lluvia) by Andreas Prittwitz
Voice Train Travel Platform Film Announcer Sound Effects EFX Sfx FX Voice Prompts and Spoken Phrases Announcers by West Side Sound Effects

Home Is Where The Hard Is

State of Alarm (2020) 
for wind band and percussion
by Kristian de Leon

About the piece:
State of Alarm was first commissioned by my great friend and gifted tuba player Andrew Ordonez, originally for Tuba quartet. As the piece developed, we both concluded that the work would suit the sounds and performative range of the wind band, which led to the final creation of this work. The piece was composed during the periods of isolation due to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, as I watched the seemingly-distant world outside of my home begin to undergo numerous changes. This piece is an illustration of the tumultuous mix of emotions I, along with friends and colleagues, experienced as a reaction. 

Proceeds from this work will be donated to local charities in support of social change and equality for underrepresented and minority groups. 

Score and parts available at www.kristiandeleon.com
kdeleonmusic@gmail.com

State Of Alarm for Wind Band and Percussion

Composer / Performer / Saxophonist / Educator / Friend  - Let's make some noise together - NYC.

MO'INGUS

Shelley Washington

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