The Emerging Jazz Composer Competition was sponsored by Jazz in the Neighborhood, thanks to a grant from the Zellerbach Foundation, and took place in August of 2015.
The top three winners were Aaron Bahr of Brooklyn, NY, whose composition"Rubatosis" won the 1st place prize of $500, Javier Nero of Miami, FL, whose composition "The 11th Plague" won 2nd place and $300, and Shai Golan, of Northridge, CA, whose composition "You Don't Even Care", won 3rd place and $100.
Those three winners plus honorable mention compositions by Christopher Main, Dan Neville, Joseph Ricard, Liberte-Ann Limberiou, Nate Schwartz, David Von Kampen, Austin Chanu were performed and recorded by the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra at Doc's Lab in San Francisco on August 29th, at 8pm.
The compositions were originals that hasn't been released on a commercial recording yet, that were 15 minutes long and written for the instrumentation: 5 saxes (2 altos, one doubling on clarinet/flute, 2 tenors, 1 doubling on clarinet/flute, 1 bari) 4 trombones, 4 trumpets (doubling on flugels), guitar, piano, bass, drums.
Those three winners plus honorable mention compositions by Christopher Main, Dan Neville, Joseph Ricard, Liberte-Ann Limberiou, Nate Schwartz, David Von Kampen, Austin Chanu were performed and recorded by the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra at Doc's Lab in San Francisco on August 29th, at 8pm.
The compositions were originals that hasn't been released on a commercial recording yet, that were 15 minutes long and written for the instrumentation: 5 saxes (2 altos, one doubling on clarinet/flute, 2 tenors, 1 doubling on clarinet/flute, 1 bari) 4 trombones, 4 trumpets (doubling on flugels), guitar, piano, bass, drums.
The works were reviewed by a panel of musicians from the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra and Jazz in the Neighborhood.