On “Chamber Jazz,” Eastman School of Music professor Charles Pillow filters elements of great French Impressionist composers like Ravel and Debussy through a jazz sensibility.
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JAZZ | Charles Pillow
Woodwind player Charles Pillow is a professor at the Eastman School of Music, but that doesn’t mean he’s traded the stage for academia. A top session musician, Pillow has recorded with Donald Fagan, Paul Simon, Jay-Z, and many others. On the jazz side, he’s worked with Ron Carter, Michael Brecker and John Scofield. The first […]
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Jazz Fest 2017, Day 6: Ron reviews Charles Pillow Large Ensemble, George Cables, and Ryan Keberle & Catharsis
When jazz aficionados think of Miles Davis and jazz orchestra music, the first thing that comes to mind is a series of recordings Davis made with arranger Gil Evans in the late-1950’s. Wednesday night at Xerox Auditorium, the Charles Pillow Large Ensemble performed something fairly radical: jazz orchestra arrangements of some of Davis’s most controversial […]
