Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra » Special message for the orchestra http://www.novajazz.net The Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra is a project sponsored by the Nova Jazz Corporation, a Twin-Cities non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting and developing the arts and, in particular, modern big band jazz. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:01:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nova & Le Sacre du Printemps http://www.novajazz.net/2011/03/nova-le-sacre-du-printemps/ http://www.novajazz.net/2011/03/nova-le-sacre-du-printemps/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:01:05 +0000 njazz http://www.novajazz.net/?p=492 Nova would like to thank those who’ve augmented the band’s personnel while we performed Bill Mathieu’s music in recent months. Because of Stan Kenton’s predilection for expanded big-band instrumentation, your aid was absolutely necessary and helped give us the big sound everyone noticed at the Shorewood last month. (Of course, the writing might have had something to do with that, too). Thanks especially to Bill Mathieu himself: he paid us a fine visit, rehearsed us, and spoke to us about what he values in music. Thanks to everyone in the band — your rehearsal, performance and general hard work made the project possible and enjoyable. And our sound engineer, Matt? Special thanks to him as well.

Coming up this Tuesday, March 22, at 7pm, Nova is back at the Shorewood. We’ll be delving back into our regular repertoire, but as usual everyone can expect some surprises.

]]> http://www.novajazz.net/2011/03/nova-le-sacre-du-printemps/feed/ 0 O’gara’s 9/23/08 http://www.novajazz.net/2008/09/ogaras-92308/ http://www.novajazz.net/2008/09/ogaras-92308/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:11:29 +0000 johna http://www.novajazz.net/?p=96 I believe we are ready to record. The group sounded great on the tunes we plan to lay down this Sunday at 3:30pm, but show up at 3:00 (hint, hint, reminder)

  • Northstar (devich)
  • Copperhead (Byers)
  • Feets (Peterson)
  • Hungarian Lanterns(Stinson)
  • We will do “Winter Midnight Jive” if we have time

I have contacted John Hyvarnen about playing guitar on Feets.

See you Sunday,

John Ahern

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