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Larry Chernicoff is making quiet history with his integration of chamber music and jazz improvisation.
National Public Radio
Larry Chernicoff is making quiet history with his integration of chamber music and jazz improvisation.
National Public Radio
Larry Chernicoff
and the Higher Octave
The 8-piece Higher Octave ensemble is my latest project, featuring a very accomplished and sophisticated group of players. The softer sound is characterized by clarinet, bass clarinet, alto clarinet, oboe and English horn - in addition to passages for the full range of of saxophones.
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​​​​"It was unusual, engaging, fun, beautiful, thoughtful! My partner and I came away feeling so enriched and invigorated."
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"My sister was quizzing me all the way home: What do you call that music? That wasn't really jazz, right?".
"It was the quieter interludes, that struck me, though the whole concert could not have been more specific, and realized, in its shapes and sonorities. Elegant."
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