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Each member of the New Jazz Composers Octet brings original music to rehearse and refine.
NPR: New Jazz Composers Octet: The Elite Eight
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Even though Dave Brubeck had a stellar octet, the eight-person ensemble is an uncommon configuration in jazz.
NPR: New Jazz Composers Octet: The Elite Eight
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She says on her website she wrote the a cappella piece for her vocal octet Roomful of Teeth.
NPR: Caroline Shaw Wins 2013 Pulitzer For Music
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Redman leads the ensemble on tenor, while the ninth member of the octet is behind the scenes: arranger Gil Goldstein.
NPR: Joshua Redman Leads The SF Jazz Collective
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Judging from the band's lax album-release schedule, expect the full thought from Davis and the octet no later than 2013.
NPR: New Jazz Composers Octet: The Elite Eight
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Since 1996, the members of the New Jazz Composers Octet have extended their own brand of jazz articulation for eight.
NPR: New Jazz Composers Octet: The Elite Eight
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The organization's flagship group, the SFJazz Collective, is a flexible octet of established players, each with his own stylistic bent.
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That rings true in an ensemble like the New Jazz Composers Octet, a band whose sum is greater than any individual.
NPR: New Jazz Composers Octet: The Elite Eight
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The surviving octet of monarchies is strengthened by economic and strategic factors.
ECONOMIST: The Gulf
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"D-Man in the Waters" (1989), an often frantically busy exercise performed in Ms. Prince's olive-drab costuming to Mendelssohn's effervescent Octet for Strings in E-Flat Major, began life as a showcase honoring a company dancer then ravaged by AIDS. It remains a thin, derivative work that looks back here and there in its diving-to-the-stage energy to Paul Taylor's masterly, heart-pumping, Bach-inspired 1975 "Esplanade, " as well as to Mark Morris's evocative and momentous 1981 "Gloria" (to Vivaldi).
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