Ro-Bone

Brass Quartet I wrote for my Composition for Non-Majors class.  It's a rough recording but I thought it came out nice and I hope you agree!
Trumpet-Casey Brefka
French Horn- Dominic Brancazio
Trombone- Chubby Bone
Tuba- Rob Mortenson

Fall In Love- Brass Quartet

Some nice sounds I decided to throw onto my promotional tape for school.  Props to the band... sounded totally hype!
Trombone- Jon Kenney
Trombone- Black Bone
Bass- Matt Stavrakas
Drumz- Connor Baker

Along Came Betty- Trombone Duet

An arrangement I made of What is this Thing Called Love for my promotional tape.  Cool or not cool... you decide!  Thanks to the guys who played, sounded great!
Vocals-Michael Mayo
Trumpet- Aquiles Navarro
Tenor-Christian Contreras
Trombone- Silky Bone
Piano- Isaac Wilson
Bass- Kevin Abdella
Drums- Connor Baker


What Is This Thing?

An original tune featuring:
Trumpet- Aquiles Navarro
Tenor- Christian Contreras
Trombone- Biggy Bone
Piano- Isaac Wilson
Bass- Kevin Abdella
Drums- Connor Baker

Pink

Our debut performance at the Shake-A-Spear in the Park Festival, opening for the performance of Coriolanus (a very great performance by the way).  I decided to make a tribute to Shake-A-Spear by giving my own dramatic reading whilst returning to my roots as a rock god.
The fine gents accompanying me:
Jon Kenney- tbn
Matt Stavrakas- bs
Jacob Cole- dms

Michael Prentky's Bone Town: The Muffin Man (Zappa)

Intro inspired by Errol Garner ("if he can do seemingly random, unrelated intros to tunes, why can't I?") into my contrafact of Con Alma.  Blast beats ensue.  Recorded live at the Shaq-Spear in the Park Festival.  Helping make the disco happen:
Jon Kenney- tbn
Matt Stavrakas- bs
Jacob Cole- dms

also making an appearance laughing at the beginning and end is my mom -__-

Disco Con Alma

A brief recording I made for my application into the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead competition.  Wish i could have featured some of the other players more, but alas, I was time crunched.  Either way, I was very pleased with how the recording turned out thanks to such great supporting players:

Jacob Siekman- Tenor Sax
Henrique Eisenmann- Piano
Matt Stavrakas- Bass
Joe Musacchia- drums

Bruise Brews Bleuse

Two Years in the making, this was my attempt at four 12-tone chorales complemented by four haikus I wrote, sandwiched between guided improvisations.  I have yet to hear the studio version we recorded but I couldn't wait to release it!  Artfully crafted by:

Katya Dreyer-Oren- Vocals
Jenn Allen- Trumpet
Urz Trooly- Trombone
Jacob Siekman- Tenor Sax
Randal Despommier- Alto Sax
Peter Jonatan- Piano
Jeremy Marx- Guitar
Matt Stavrakas- Bass
Jud Kim- Drums

trombonito