Jazz Composers Alliance

09/30/2024

05/16/2024

New and bold musical adventures with the 21 piece JCA Orchestra.
Advance tickets available at mandorlamusic.net. And there is plenty of free parking.

09/24/2023

Please come to our next performance!

05/24/2023

The Jazz Composers Alliance presentsThe JCA Orchestra, featuring Debo Ray, voiceComposed and conducted by Darrell KatzPoem by Paula Tatarunisperformance 3/...

03/20/2023

JCA Orchestra on March 6, 2023. A very good night.

The Jazz Composers Alliance is a composers’ collective founded in 1985. Resident composers (and Berklee faculty members) Darrell Katz, Bob Pilkington, Dave…

02/17/2023

We will be at the BPC on Monday, March 6

01/12/2023

Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra
Published by Darrell Katz · 9m ·
We have three Winter concerts coming up!
1/29 at the Lily Pad, then a repeat performance at Arlington High School's beautiful auditorium, with a warm up act by the AHS Jazz Band, who will collaborate with us for Mimi Rabson's improvisational tribute to Terry Riley and minimalism, In Bb.
We will be at the BPC on March 6 (more about that in the future).

11/28/2021

Public
Public
My new album just came out. It can be found at all the usual places! http://jazzpress.gpoint-audio.com/2021/11/november-19th-2021-release-jca-recordingsdarrell-katz-oddsongs-galeanthropology/

The new Katz's recording Galeanthropology on JCA Recordings showcases Oddsong which uses four saxophones, violin, marimba, and voice in a program of original songs, pop classics and jazz standards.

02/08/2020

Gullotti, who died Jan. 25, and his bandmates have been fixtures on the Boston jazz scene for nearly 50 years.

01/02/2020

Music and words by Darrell Katz. Performed by OddSong Rebecca Shrimpton, voice, Helen Sherrah-Davies, Violin, Phil Scarff, tenor, Rick Stone Alto

12/07/2019

Address correction: the concert is at 1605 mass ave in Cary hall

12/01/2019

String quartet by Louis Andriessen based on Charlie Parker tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy910Ix6aRA

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