New Jazz initiative at Boosey & Hawkes
(September 2006)
Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to announce the addition of a new Jazz strand to its musical offering
A new B&H jazz initiative, centred at its New York office, is launched with the signing of eminent pianist/composers Chick Corea and David Benoit, and a worldwide agency agreement for the distinguished Second Floor Music catalogue, which features some of the best-known compositions of the bop and post-bop eras. Boosey & Hawkes will represent all forthcoming works from these catalogues, including concert pieces, media scores, and album tracks.
Chick Corea
Chick Corea (b.1941) is one of the most admired and prolific jazz composers of our time. First gaining notice for his work with Miles Davis’s ensembles in the late 1960s, he quickly established himself as a groundbreaking leader in his own right. His catalogue ranges from solo pieces for piano to large-scale classical concert works, from straight-ahead jazz to avant-garde explorations, hard-hitting fusion, and world music. Boosey & Hawkes will be the exclusive agent for both existing works (from 1995) and forthcoming pieces.
Corea’s latest concert work, Piano Concerto No.2 – The Continents, was premiered in July as part of the Vienna Jazz Festival’s tribute to Mozart’s 250th anniversary. Composed for solo piano and chamber orchestra, the work was performed by members of the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, joined by Corea’s own group: Marcus Gilmore (drums), Hans Glawischnig (bass), and Tim Garland (bass clarinet, flute, and saxophones) with the composer as piano soloist. Corea then embarked on a major tour of the concerto to Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Turkey. Further performances will take place in the Netherlands and Germany in January 2007.
David Benoit
David Benoit (b.1953) is not only a gifted contemporary jazz pianist and composer, with 25 solo recordings to his credit including many top-sellers, but also a sought-after conductor who has directed the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and Dresden Philharmonic and is music director of the Asia-America Symphony Orchestra. He has scored several films and television shows, including more than ten years of composing music for Charles Schultz’s Peanuts TV specials on CBS. His works under the new publishing deal with B&H include two symphonic scores, Kobe and Something’s Gotta Give, and Benoit is currently composing a new work for soprano sax, acoustic guitar and orchestra.
“As a jazz pianist and recording artist, I have been looking for opportunities to expand my career as an orchestral composer and conductor,” says Benoit. “Signing with Boosey & Hawkes has given me an amazing opportunity to do so. Being a huge fan of B&H composers like Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Adams, I am especially honoured to be part of this prestigious publishing company.”
Second Floor Music
In the field of straight-ahead jazz Second Floor Music is one of the most important catalogues with more than 3500 works. Clifford Brown, Ray Bryant, Kenny Dorham, Roy Hargrove, J.J. Johnson, Hank Mobley, Rene Rosnes, Bobby Watson, and James Williams are only a few of the major figures represented. Moreover, the exclusive world-wide agency agreement with Second Floor Music gives B&H the ability to license recordings by many jazz greats of the post-war era for film, television, and commercial uses.
The Second Floor Music catalogue includes the historic 1939 releases on Blue Note Records (Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis), together with such well-known titles as Lona (Mario Bauza recorded by Chick Webb’s orchestra), Boperation (Howard McGhee and Fats Navarro), Something in B Flat and Cuban Fantasy (Ray Bryant), Frame for the Blues (Slide Hampton), Long as You’re Living (Julian Priester/Tommy Turrentine), and Una Mas (Kenny Dorham).
Photo: Clifford Brown by Francis Wolff © Mosaic ImagesPhotograph by Francis Wolff (c) Mosaic Images
For more information on Francis Wolff's Blue Note photography, please visit http://www.mosaicrecords.com/photography.asp
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