SPU Presents Joseph Daley's 'Seven Deadly Sins'
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Joseph Daley – Seven Deadly Sins for augmented jazz orchestra
Featuring a genre-bending work by Joseph Daley that includes freely improvised sections and Latin-American grooves. Also featuring original chamber works by SPU student composers.
After nearly 50 years of recognition as one of the consummate sidemen on the adventurous music scene – with remarkable artists like Sam Rivers, Carla Bley, Gil Evans, Charlie Haden, Muhal Richard Abrams, Taj Mahal and so many more – Joseph Daley has emerged as one of Jazz’s and contemporary music’s most extraordinary composers and leaders. Stunning musicians and fans alike with his brilliant 2011 CD, The Seven Deadly Sins, featuring his Earth Tones Ensemble (a full Jazz orchestra augmented by six additional low-tone horns, and including a seven-member rhythm section and four special guests), this powerfully innovative music mines the same rich vein of musical expression as that of such immortals as Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, and George Russell, receiving rave reviews and making several Best of Year lists.
In 2013 he followed up with The Seven Heavenly Virtues, and in 2014 Portraits: Wind, Thunder and Love, which includes the five-movement suite “Wispercussion: Five Portraits of Warren Smith” – both works featuring string orchestras.