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  • Behind The Scenes with JFM Pre

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      Behind The Scenes with JFM Presents and Mitch Marcus…

      August 3, 2009

      Saxophonist Mitch Marcus has not missed a beat since he moved back to the East Coast in late June.  He just performed at Small's in New York City on July 24 and is winding up his newest project.  Countdown to Meltdown, scheduled for release on August 18 by Jazzcubed, an independent label founded by longtime Producer/Engineer Stephen Barncard (Tubes, Grateful Dead, Crosby, Stills, and Nash) is Marcus' third CD following Entropious (2002) and The Special (2007).  Marcus will be back on the West Coast August 17-24 for rehearsals and performances, including the official CD release party at Yoshi's San Francisco, August 24.

      Music Critic Jim Harrington says, "Mitch Marcus is a busy man.  The Berkeley-based jazz saxophonist, who is also handy on the keyboards, performs in more ensembles than there are nights of the week.  What's really amazing, however, is the wide range of styles represented in those bands." (Oakland Tribune, May 2008).

      While at Indiana University, Marcus met alto sax man Sylvain Carton, who is the founder/mastermind behind the Japonize Elephants (hard-core gypsy circus bluegrass klezmer pirate clown music), which was formed in 1996.  That was the first band where Marcus and Carton performed together.  In 1998, Marcus moved to The Bay Area, Carton soon thereafter, and the Mitch Marcus Quintet was formed in 1999.

      From 1999 to 2004, Marcus has performed and toured with Mood Food, featuring Vince Welnick of the Grateful Dead (groove/funky jazz).  The band has more recently morphed into a similar style group called Stanley.  In 2004, Marcus received a Subito Grant from The American Composers Forum and formed Mitch Marcus Quintet + 13 Big Band, which made its debut at Yoshi's Oakland (Sep 2005).  Most recently, de Young Museum of San Francisco commissioned Marcus to write a composition about a piece of art in their permanent collection for the MMQ+13.

      During 2005-2006, Marcus joined Donovan (60s icon touring band), the Matt Small Chamber Ensemble (avant-garde/classical/funk band, whose debut gig was at Carnegie Hall), the Nathan Clevenger Group (jazz/country band, who recently recorded a CD), Aphrodesia (Afro-beat, whose next performance is August 21) and straight-ahead jazz band Ben Adams Quintet (it was through Adams that Marcus came to record with legendary trombonist Grachan Moncur III).

      About two years ago, Marcus began playing with The Shotgun Wedding Hiphop Symphony, and other branches of Adam Theis, specifically the Shotgun Wedding Quintet and Realistic Orchestra.

      Since 2003, Marcus has performed the National Anthem for the Oakland Athletics and Golden State Warriors.  He has written music in a romantic/classical style for COUNTERPOINTe (his wife Sarah's dance company) and led a jam session every Wednesday at Amnesia in San Francisco for five and a half years.

      JFM Presents:  Circa 2006 was the first time I heard you perform with the Ben Adams Quintet @ the now defunct Jazz at Pearl’s.  You made quite an impression on me, and I remember asking Ben about you after the gig.  I booked a few more gigs for Ben thereafter, but had not met you until last spring at the SFJAZZ master series.  I booked a saxophone tribute series at the Jazzschool, and Cory Combs, SFJAZZ Director of Education, contacted me to book the same artists for his series.  To my surprise, you played piano and Sameer Gupta played drums!

      Name all the instruments you play, which one is your favorite, and why.

      Mitch Marcus:  Saxophones (primarily tenor and alto, though bari and soprano on occasion as well), clarinet, piano, keyboards (primarily fender Rhodes and Hammond b-3 organ), flute.  Hard to say the favorite because part of what keeps them all fresh for me is the variety.  When I’m playing a lot of saxophone I crave the piano and vice-versa.   I’ve been playing clarinet the longest and have recently dove back in head-first, revisiting the classical repertoire.  In some groups that I play in, including Donovan, Stanley, and Shotgun Wedding Quintet I regularly double with keys and sax which I particularly enjoy doing.

      JFM Presents:  You recently moved back home to the East Coast and just had your first gig at Smalls in NYC on Friday, July 24.  After having spent the past 11 years in the Bay Area, what was that experience like for you?  Specifically, how would you say the East Coast differs from the West Coast music scene?

      Mitch Marcus:  We actually have been playing on and off in NY for the last 4 years.  We’ve done a few gigs at the 55 bar and this was our 4th time playing at Smalls.  I’ve always loved playing in NY and am very excited about living here again.  As far as the differences between west coast and east coast music scene the one thing that hits me right off the bat is that the east coast fosters the scene a lot more.  Clubs have regular audiences and even when clubs close down, new ones pop up.  The city’s night-life actually revolves around the music scene in a way that I’ve not seen any where else. 

      JFM Presents:  You spearheaded and hosted jazz sessions at Amnesia for five and a half years.  What were the two most memorable experiences, one good, one bad?

      Mitch Marcus:  I never would have thought I’d have enjoyed running a session as much as I did.  It was Sol Crawford’s and Shawn McGee’s brainchild.  When they approached me about running it, my main thing  was to have it be different from a lot of sessions I’d known in the past.  I was never into the cutthroat, heavy vibing kind of thing.  This was gonna be a no sign up list, just “come talk to me and we’ll get you up on stage” thing.  I tried to avoid too many people onstage at the same time that way it’s not just a horn fest and everybody’s involved; the rhythm section can have more fun and be more than just a metronome or play-along cd! 
          I’ve met more people than I could’ve imagined through running The MM Session.  Every week there were new faces along with familiar ones and every week was musically stimulating in some fashion.  Mike Abraham and I really formed a bond through running it.  Since he started doing the session with me, we’ve collaborated on more projects than I could count.  I’m thrilled that he’s decided to take over leading it.   It’s all about the music.  Amnesia’s a great spot and has helped turned this into one of the best hangouts in the city.  
       
      JFM Presents:  Your discography includes:  <<Entropious>> (2002), <<The Special>> (2007) and your forthcoming release <<Countdown to Meltdown,>> which is due August 18.  While I have not heard your debut CD, I would classify <<The Special>> and <<Countdown to Meltdown>> as straight-ahead jazz.  Since your tracks are original compositions, what artists have influenced you the most?

      Mitch Marcus:  I’m always a bit hesitant to call our music straight ahead jazz only because it incorporates so much more and can actually be a little bit limiting for what we’re doing.  The MMQ style draws heavily upon some straight ahead influence but also has elements of Rock, Classical, mixed meter groove, collective improvisation, Country/Bluegrass, middle eastern, even Surf!     

      A lot of our music is through composed in the way you’d write for larger ensembles such as big-band or orchestra.  In that sense it’s no surprise that some of both mine and Sylvain’s heroes are Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Sergei Prokofiev, David Baker, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Richard Wagner, Wayne Shorter, Ween, Zappa, Steely Dan, Grateful Dead, Nat Cole, Lester Young, Bill Monroe, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Giuseppe Verdi, Ornette Coleman, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Art Blakey, and so much more!

      JFM Presents:  Finally, most Bay Area jazz musicians, aficionados and the media are familiar with saxophonist Mitch Marcus.  What would make someone unfamiliar with you and your style of music come out to the CD Release of “Countdown to Meltdown>>? 

      Mitch Marcus:  To see that original music is alive and well in Jazz!  As much as we draw on our influences, we like to feel that we’re constantly pushing ahead.  The MMQ in the “Jazz” world in that we all write for the band and help shape it’s sound.  It is not an all-star collective; it is a “band.”  This distinction is considerably more common in the world of rock ‘n’ roll (which we all have roots in as well)(((possibly a superfluous sentence))) but has most definitely contributed to the overall vibe and sound of the group.  We have a lot of fun playing with each other and I think this comes out in the music.  While there’s a heavy intensity embedded in it there’s always some underlying humor as well.˚

      Countdown to Meltdown
      (Street Date: August 18, 2009)
      Available at CD Baby & Amazon

      Mitch Marcus (tenor saxophone)
      Sylvain Carton (alto-soprano saxophones)
      George Ban-Weiss (bass)
      Tomas Fujiwara (drums)
      Mike Abraham (guitar).

      Mitch Marcus Quintet
      Monday, Aug 24th at 8 and 10 P.M.
      $10 / $12 (day of show)
      Yoshi's San Francisco
      1330 Fillmore Street
      San Francisco, CA 94115
      Box Office:  415.655.5600
      http://yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclub/artistpopup?showid=798

      Photo credit:  Stephen Barncard

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  • Vera Trifanova: Schenkt Man Si

    • From: berh
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      duet Vera Trifanova and Helmut Frantz "Schenkt Man Sich Rosen in Tirol" (When You Give Roses)

      from the operetta Der Vogelhändler by Carl Zeller

      2006 New Year concert Heidelberg conductor Guenther Stegmueller

      Vera Trifanova coloratura soprano

      Вера Трифанова колоратурное сопрано

      http://www.veratrifanova.com

       

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  • Vera Trifanova: F.Lehar`s Lipp

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      duet Vera Trifanova and Helmut Frantz: Lippen schweigen, s'fluestern Geigen

      operetta Die lustige Witwe (Merry Widow) by F.Lehar

      2006 New Year concert Heidelberg conductor Guenther Stegmueller

      Vera Trifanova coloratura soprano

      Вера Трифанова колоратурное сопрано

      http://www.veratrifanova.com

       

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  • New website of Vera Trifanova,

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      At http://www.veratrifanova.com is a new site of Vera Trifanova, coloratura soprano. Apart from information common to such resources, such as the bioghraphy, the repertoire, concert schedule and photos, the site features a large number of the recordings and videos of the singer's concert performances in avi, mp3, mpeg and wma formats.

       

      Among those are such classical coloratura arias as Mozart's Koenigin Der Nacht, Hofman's Olympia, R. Strauss' Zerbinetta, Johan Strauss' Adele as well as such jewels of  oratorial and baroque music as Handel's Gloria In Excelsis Deo, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Bach's Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen and Melani's cantata Qual mormorio giocondo.

       

      Vera Trifanova graduated cum laude from the Mannheim Opera School in Germany. While she was studying there, in 2003, she became a finalist of the Viotii contest in Italy, then a semi-finalist of the Queen Elizabeth contest in Belgium in 2004 and debuted in the opera theater in Baden-Baden and Heidelberg Staatstheater.

       

      The singer often takes her opera and baroque programmes on the road with orchestras directed by such conductors as Klaus Arp, Heinz-Rüdiger Drengemann, Klaus Eisenmann, Ronald Techet, Peter Schumann, Markus Zepp and Volker Christ.

       

      At a jubilee festival in Zwingenberg in 2007, Vera performed the aria of Koenigin Der Nacht in Mozarts's Die Zauberflute. The next year she performed in the premiere of «Hands in the cave» by the contemporary composer Carola Gribari in Heidelberg.

       

      This year Vera Trifanova is graduating from the Musikhochschule Mannheim post-graduate department.

       

      Her site features articles in the German Press covering her work. Below are some excerpts from these publications.  

       

      «Eine Paradepartie für die russische Koloratursopranistin Vera Trifanova, die den mörderischen Koloraturen gestochen klares Profil, furiosen Schwung und glitzernde Klangschönheit gab. Hohe Präsenz,

      virtuose Attacke verband sie dabei mit großer Musikalität. (Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 07.08.2007)

       

      «Eine ganz grosse Freude bedeutete der Auftritt der aus Moskau stammenden Sopranistin Vera Trifanova ,deren Domaene die Operette ist....Die stimme hat einen sehr beachtlichen Tonumfang und ein ausgeglichenes,sehr schoen klingendes Timbre in allen Lagen und allen Staerkegraden mit Schallkraft, Tragfaehigkeit und Resonanz.... Sie sang einfuehlsam wie ein Engel und selbstbewusst wie eine Koenigin». (Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 09.12.2008)

       

      «Die russische Sopranistin Vera Trifanova ist eine Virtuosin, die das Schwierigste mit der größten Leichtigkeit und Brillanz singt». (Darmstadter Echo, 08.01.2007)

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  • Vera Trifanova coloratura aria

    • From: berh
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                    Mannheim, Germany, 2007

                    Piano: Andreas Sorg

             Vera Trifanova coloratura soprano

                    http://www.veratrifanova.com

       

       

       

       

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  • Vera Trifanova Russian sacred

    • From: berh
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      Вера Трифанова колоратурное сопрано coloratura soprano

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      http://www.veratrifanova.com

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  • Vera Trifanova aria Adele J. S

    • From: berh
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      Вера Трифанова колоратурное сопрано coloratura soprano

                     New Year concert 2006 Germany

                     conductor Guenther Stegmueller

                    http://www.veratrifanova.com

       

    • 8 months ago
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  • Vera Trifanova as Frasquita fr

    • From: berh
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      2008 Zwingenberg Festival

      Вера Трифанова колоратурное сопрано coloratura soprano

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  • Vera Trifanova: Koenigin der N

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      Zwingenberg Festival Germany 2007

      Вера Трифанова колоратурное сопрано

      coloratura soprano

      http://www.veratrifanova.com

       

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