Jazz Composers Alliance

Jazz Composers Alliance
I used to go see the Jazz Composer's Alliance often when I was at school at Berklee. It's a great ensemble with excellent players and composers.
Their next Show is at the The Arsenal Center for the Arts on Feb. 25th 2006.
Here is their press release:

Jazz Composers' Alliance Orchestra in Concert
at the Arsenal Center for the Arts
Saturday, February 25, 2006

The Arsenal Center for the Arts and the Jazz Composers' Alliance present a program of new music for the 18-piece JCA Orchestra by composers Darrell Katz, David Harris, Hans Indigo, Ken Schaphorst, Warren Senders and Norm Zocher, on Saturday, Feburary 25, at 8 pm, at the Arsenal Center for the Arts. The Arsenal Center for the Arts is located at 321 Arsenal Street in Watertown, MA, next to Panera Bread. Tickets are $15/adults and $10/seniors & students. Tickets on sale February 11 at the Arsenal Center box office at (617) 923-8487, online at www.arsenalarts.org and at the door.

The Jazz Composers' Alliance Orchestra has been a fixture on Boston's creative music scene for almost two decades. Combining dedicated musicianship, innovative programming and fresh compositional ideas, their concerts are musically diverse and exciting events. After several years of intensive recording, the Orchestra has released four new CDs since 2003, including the critically acclaimed "In, Thru and Out," (Cadence), "The Death of Simone Weil," and "Celebration of the Spirit." (C.I.M.P.), all of which feature the widely varied writing of the JCA resident composers.

Drawing on influences that span the history of jazz and encompass the world's musical traditions, Katz, Harris, Indigo, Schaphorst, Senders and Zocher bring together a huge palette of sounds, structures and conceptions to make the JCA Orchestra's concerts unique "big band" experiences. Many of the band's featured soloists are bandleaders and composers in their own right, which means that JCA Orchestra performances highlight the artistry of some of New England's most creative musicians, including Hiro Honshuku (flute), Jim Hobbs (alto sax), Phil Scarff (tenor sax), Mike Peipman and Gary Bohan (trumpet), Bob Pilkington (trombone), Rick McLaughlin (double bass), Norm Zocher (guitar), and Rebecca Shrimpton (voice).

This project is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and by the Aaron Copland Foundation.