THE BIBLE: SJCE & BUSHWICK BOOK CLUB SEATTLE 3/28 & 3/29

 
March 28 & 29 – 8pm

Town Hall
1119 8th Ave

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The Bushwick Book Club Seattle has teamed up with the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble and Eric Lane Barnes to present original music inspired by The Old Testament.

10 Songwriters have written 10 new songs based on 10 stories form the Bible’s Old Testament. SJCE took these songs and arranged them for a 7-piece band and chamber choir. At the end of March, all this comes together to bring you an evening of song, comedy, and theater, re-imagining stories from one of the oldest, influential, and controversial books we know.

This community project involves the work of over 30 artists and reflects a wide range of music and arts found in Seattle – it is an ambitious project. The goal is to provide audiences with a meaningful, high quality, multidisciplinary experience and an opportunity for artists that normally don’t work together a chance to collaborate.

Hosts:
MJ Seiber, Evan Mosher and Terri Weagant

Performers include:
Eric Lane Barnes
Lisa Koch
Tamara Power Drutis
Bucket of Honey
Wes Weddell
Beth Fleenor
Spekulation
Tai Shan
Amanda Sue Winterhalter
Vince Martinez

With arrangements by: Wayne Horvitz, Michael Owcharuk, Nate Omdal, Beth Fleenor, David Marriott and more…

Info: http://www.thebushwickbookclubseattle.com

Info: http://www.seattlejazzcomposersensemble.com

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Our Story:

The Bushwick Bookclub Seattle and the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble(SJCE) have joined forces to produce a big event featuring: The Bible!  And we need your help in raising $3000 to help make it happen.

10 Songwriters have written 10 new songs based on 10 stories form the Bible’s Old Testament. SJCE took these songs and arranged them for a 7-piece band and chamber choir. On March 28 and 29, at Seattle Town Hall, all this comes together to bring you an evening of song, comedy, and theater, re-imagining stories from one of the oldest, influential, and contraversial books we know.

This community project involves the work of over 30 artists and reflects a wide range of music and arts found here in Seattle. It is our most ambitious project yet.  The goal is to provide audiences with a meaningful, high quality, multi-disciplinary experience and an opportunity for artists that normally don’t work together to work together.

This fundraising drive is to raise money to pay for the venue rental fee and production costs. Covering these expenses ahead of time enables us to give more of the money generated by ticket sales to the artists who created the work. Your support will put more money in the hands of these folk that are composing, arranging, performing, and producing this event.

Our Artists:

Bushwick Bookclub Seattle Songwriters: Lisa Koch, Spekulation, Eric Lane Barnes, Bucket of Honey, Tai Shan, Beth Fleenor, Tamara Rose Power-Drutis, Vince Martinez, Amanda Sue Winterhalter, and Wes Waddell.

Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Arrangers:  Michael Owcharuk, Nate Omdal, David Marriott Jr., and special guest Wayne Horvitz.

Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble: Cynthia Mullis and Brian Bermudez-saxophones, Samantha Boshnack-trumpet, David Marriott Jr.-trombone, Michael Owcharuk-piano, Nate Omdal-bass, Adam Kessler-drums.

Choir: featuring 12 members of the Seattle Men’s and Women’s chorus’ and directed by Eric Lane Barnes.

Actors/Hosts: MJ Seiber and Evan Mosher

Production Team: Geoff Larson, Beth Fleenor, Michael Owcharuk, Nate Omdal, and Eric Lane Barnes

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Join SJCE & the Bushwick Book Club Seattle to Kick-Off a New Collaboration

Saturday, February 9 – 9pm
Arabica Lounge

The Bushwick Book Club Seattle, Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble and Captain Smarty Pants have joined together for a performance of The Bible – original songs inspired by stories from The Old Testament! The event includes 10 songwriters, a small choir, a chamber group, a band, the voice of God and more, premiering in March.

The collaborating organizations are raising $3000 to make the performance a success.

February’s benefit performance will include appearances by: Tai Shan, Amanda Sue Winterhalter, Captain Smarty Pants, Spekulation, Seattle Jazz Composer’s Small Ensemble, Vince Martinez and more…and there will be fantastic prizes, raffles, and give a ways…

This is a perfect night to help support these arts organizations in the creation of an unforgettable event!

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coming March 28 & 29 at Town Hall
The Bible – Old Testament presented by the Bushwick Book Club Seattle, Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble and Captain Smarty Pants

Seasons Greetings! SJCE News for 2013

Happy Holidays from everyone at SJCE!  We are very pleased to announce 2 exciting collaborations and performances happening next year:

March 28 and 29, 2013 – SJCE has partnered with The Bushwick Bookclub and Captain Smartypants to present songs about the Bible’s Old Testament arranged for choir and 7 piece band! At Town Hall.

April 2013 – The Seattle International Film Festival, the Seattle Composers Alliance, and SJCE  will be presenting a concert featuring live band scoring to new original, silent films.  Films and music are the result of a collaboration between local film-makers and composers.

Stay tuned for more details.

Confluence/Influence; A Composer/Choreographer Collaboration

Confluence/Influence:                                                             A Composer/Choreographer Pairing

The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble has joined forces with Karin Stevens Dance to produce an evening of new work created through an idiosyncratic Composer/Choreographer pairing. Four composers have been paired with four choreographers to generate the new work, together, from the ground up. Unlike most collaborations between the mediums of music & dance, the works created through this project do not start with either medium independent of the other. Instead the artists create the entirety of the work alongside each other – conceiving, sculpting, and developing their creation side by side. Through this highly in-depth process, each work will become something else entirely – not music for dance, or dance with music, but rather a more holistic synthesis of the two.

Featured Artists:

Karin Stevens Dance + Michael Owcharuk

UMAMI Performance + Beth Fleenor

Amy Weaver + Catherine Grealish

Khambatta Dance Company + Stephen Fandrich

Music performed live by a 9-piece ensemble:

Cynthia Mullis, Brian Bermudez, Chris Credit – saxophones and woodwinds;        Samantha  Boshnack – trumpet; Greg Campbell – French Horn;  David Marriott – trombone; Jacques Willis – vibraphone; Adam Kozie – drums

4/27 & 4/28/12
All Ages                               
8pm                                      
                                                
The Chapel Performance Space
The Good Shepherd Center                                                                                   
4649 Sunnyside Ave N                     
                                                                          
$15 / $7 students & seniors
Tickets available here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238736

Coming up in April, SJCE is very pleased to announce 2 great events:

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Moisture Festival presents:

The Sound of Silents with a Side of Schtick

in collaboration with SIFF, the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble, and the Seattle Composers Alliance

For one night only, travel back to a bygone era when cinema and vaudeville shared the same bill.  Revel in in 6 exceptional examples of early cinema accompanied by newly composed scores and performed live by the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble. In between films, the Moisture Festival presents a carefully curated collection of vaudeville acts presided over by MC Kevin Joyce.

Films and composers:

The Hearts of Age, 1934, dir. Orson Welles, composer Michael Owcharuk Symphonie Diagonale, 1924, dir. Viking Eggeling, composer Catherine Grealish Policeman’s Little Run, 1907, dir. Ferdinand Zecca, composer Eric Nielsen  Golden Beetle, 1907, dir. Segundo de Chomón, composer Beth Fleenor            The Great Train Robbery, 1903, dir. Edwin S. Porter, composer Nate Omdal    The Dragonfly and the Ant, 1913, dir. Ladislaw Starewicz, composer Del Engen

Performers:

Magician Jay Alexander                                                                                        Magician Alfredo Fettuccine                                                                                  Physical Comedian Bill Robinson

4/5/12, 7:30pm                                                                                                         $15 / $12 SIFF Members / No Vouchers                                                        SIFF Cinema at the Uptown                                                                                     511 Queen Anne Ave North                                                                                        Tickets: http://www.siff.net/cinema/detail.aspx?FID=242&id=45073

~ April 27 & 28, 2012, 8pm ~

Confluence/Influence:                                                             A Composer/Choreographer Pairing

The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble has joined forces with Karin Stevens Dance to produce an evening of new work created through an idiosyncratic Composer/Choreographer pairing. Four composers have been paired with four choreographers to generate the new work, together, from the ground up. Unlike most collaborations between the mediums of music & dance, the works created through this project do not start with either medium independent of the other. Instead the artists create the entirety of the work alongside each other – conceiving, sculpting, and developing their creation side by side. Through this highly in-depth process, each work will become something else entirely – not music for dance, or dance with music, but rather a more holistic synthesis of the two.

Featured Artists:

Karin Stevens Dance + Michael Owcharuk                                                          UMAMI Performance + Beth Fleenor                                                                           Amy Weaver + Catherine Grealish                                                                            Khambatta Dance Company + Stephen Fandrich

Music performed live by a 9-piece ensemble:

Cynthia Mullis, Brian Bermudez, Chris Credit – saxophones and woodwinds;         Samantha  Boshnack – trumpet; Greg Campbell – French Horn;                                  David Marriott – trombone; Jacques Willis – vibraphone; Adam Kozie – drums

4/27 & 4/28/12, 8pm,                                                                                             All Ages                                                                                                                      The Chapel Performance Space                                                                        The Good Shepherd Center                                                                                    4649 Sunnyside Ave N                                                                                                $15 / $7 students & seniors

Tickets avaialble here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238736

 

SJCE Volume 1. is here!

We are very proud to announce the release of our debut record: SJCE Volume 1. We record 8 tracks by 7 composers: Beth Fleenor, Samantha Boshnack, Chad McCullough. Michael Owcharuk, Nate Omdal, Michael Catts, and Jim Knodle.

These tracks were played by an incredible 12-piece band.  We are offering the CD as a digital download on a Pay-What-You-Want basis.

Please click the link below to check out the record:

Thanks to the generous patrons who contributed to make this record happen!

Made possible in part by a grant from Jack Straw Productions.

We reached our funding goal! Thank you!

We here at SJCE are so excited and thankful that we reached our funding goal of $1500 to make our first record.  We recorded 7 compositions by local Seattle composers Samantha Boshnack, Beth Fleenor, Jim Knodle, Chad McCullough, Nate Omdal, Michael Owcharuk, and Philadelphia composer Michael Catts.

We had a lot of fun at the recording session and this video shows it:

Look for the record in December 2011.

Thank you to our gracious donors who made this happen:

Sustaining Patrons: Basil Gavalas, Ed Arnold, Olena Schumylowych, Justin Smith & Jeanne Freng, Anna de Santis.

Executive Producers: Kim Dalton, Marsha Omdal, Liz Sanderson.

Associate Producers: Alden Kroll, Danielle Vaughn, Karen Bermudez, Colleen Benson, Robert Ross.

Producers: Josie Herman, Richard Rodseth, Joshua Shafkind, Catherine Grealish, Reed Omdal.

Community Partners:

Recording studio time made possible in part by a grant from Jack Straw Productions.

Rehearsal space provided by Belltown Ballet and Conditioning Studio.

Food provided by Blue Moon Burgers.

The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble is making our first record and we need your help!

The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble is making our first record and we need your help! Please become part of our growing network of patrons, artists, and music and art lovers.

SJCE is asking you to help us raise $1500. Your money goes directly to produce the recording of 7 compositions by 7 local composers scored for a 12-piece ensemble of local musicians.

In return for your support we have some gifts for you:

• $10+ donation – high-quality digital download of the album and listing as producer in the album liner notes.
• $25+ donation – 1lb of exclusive SJCE blend coffee from Middlefork Roasters, plus the download, and listing as associate producer.
• $50+ donation – Band autographed poster of the album cover art by Nate Omdal, the coffee, the download, and a listing as executive producer.

Please feel free to donate absolutely any amount you can. No matter how big or small, every dollar counts!

SJCE goes into the studio on Oct. 9 and 10 and we can’t finish this project without your help.

Want to take advantage of your employer’s donation matching?  Please contact Michael Owcharuk (michael dot owcharuk at gmail dot com) for more info and added perks for you and your company.

Here is some footage from last weeks rehearsal for the recording:

The SJCE is proud to announce that we have officially begun work on our first album. We are more that pleased to feature the work and talents of many fine musicians and composers who have contributed music for our past shows. We would not be in the position we are in today without the work and time of so many great individuals, and we are happy to have the opportunity to record and document the music that has been written for our organization thus far. If you would like to be a part of this process, please click the “Donate” button and make a simple donation of $5 to the SJCE. Your support makes our progress possible.