NEW ALBUM
We are excited to announce that Alchemy Sound Project will be releasing its second CD, Adventures in Time and Space, in 2018.
UPCOMING SHOW
January 5th, 2017
Chamber Music America National Conference
New York, NY
HIGH PRAISE
Alchemy Sound Project’s first release, Further Explorations, is cited as one of the best CD’s of 2016 by Downbeat Magazine and Britain’s UKVibe Magazine.
ERICA
Erica Lindsay and the ensemble, Alchemy Sound Project, are proud recipients of the Chamber Music America 2017 New Jazz Works Commission, made possible with the generous support of the Doris Duke Foundation.
Erica was a recipient of the Composer Now 2017 Creative Residencies selection, in partnership with The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Asian Cultural Council. She collaborated with Tibetan choreographer/dance artist Wangjia Zhaxi in a weeklong residency in November 2017.
Jay Hunter’s review of Erica’s October 20, 2017 performance at A Place for Jazz with Jeff Siegel’s Sextet. Read here.
SUMI
Sumi Tonooka was a 2017 recipient of the Senators Jazz Legacy Award, which she received in Philadelphia. She shares the award with a handful of Philadelphia’s jazz luminaries including, Odean Pope, Marshall Allen and Tony Williams.
Sumi was a recipient of the 2016 Music Alive: New Partnership Residency grant, through New Music USA, where she served as composer in residence with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the direction David Delta Geir. Several of her original works were premiered including Full Circle for Orchestra and Mingus Mood; Jazz Musings on a Theme for the Dakota Wind Quartet.
Sumi has relocated to Philadelphia, after a stint of working and composing in Seattle, WA.
Sumi returns to Seattle on February 9, 2018 for a live concert recording of her composition For Malala, a work for jazz trio and orchestra.
SALIM
Salim Washington is enjoying renewed musical life after releasing his first CD recorded in South Africa, Sankofa. The CD and the band are being very well received.
Salim is playing in a multi-generational band with Mandla Mlangeni’s Amandla Freedom Ensemble in a project called Born to be Black: A Celebration of the Conscious Soul, with an all star lineup, including drummer Louis Moholo Moholo, whom Washington used to listen to in the Brotherhood of Breath and the Blue Notes as a teenager. Additionally, Salim is very happy to be part of trumpeter Sydney Mavundla’s tour, and also the tribute to Bheki Mseleku with band leader Sanele Pakhathi.
Salim has received a commission from the Jazz Foundation to write big band charts of his music and also the music of South African star pianist Nduduzo Makhathini. The music will be performed in Pretoria on December 8 and 9, 2017.
Finally, Alchemy Sound Project and Erica Lindsey have projects that will bring Salim to NYC and Philadelphia. While there he will be leading a quartet Late Night Jazz Uptown (Minton’s and Mist) on Jan 26 and 27, immediately after co-leading a quintet at the Jazz Gallery on Jan 25, 2018. Washington will also be performing in a quintet at Twins Jazz in Washington, DC on Jan 19 and 20, 2018.
DAVID
David Arend is composing a symphonic work to be premiered by the Bellingham Festival Orchestra under the baton of Michael Palmer in 2019. He is thrilled to be writing music for his many friends in the orchestra, having been a member of the bass section there for 10 seasons.
David completed two scores for short films in 2017, Changyou’s Journey and Red Light – look for links at DavidArend.com. Those rewarding projects brought David together with filmmakers Perry Shen and Zhu Shen, designer Eauseenon, actress Yoa Mizuno and videographer Larabelle.
David is currently at work on another score for short film. This film provides a crucial perspective in the discussion about immigration, immigrants’ rights and life in New York City.
SAMANTHA
Samantha Boshnack has been selected as the 2018 Make Jazz Fellow. The Seventh Annual Make Jazz Fellowship is sponsored by the Herb Alpert Foundation to honor and support promising, emerging Jazz composers. 18th Street Arts Center will provide Boshnack with a three-month fully-funded residency in Los Angeles starting February 2018. While there, she will compose and rehearse “Seismic Belt” with a band of LA musicians she assembles. At the end of the residency, she will premiere the work at a large concert in an LA venue presented by 18th Street Arts Center. For more info, go to 18th Street Arts Center.
In August 2017, Sam released her fourth album as a band leader – Nellie Bly Project for the Sam Boshnack Quintet on Artists Recording Collective. The album is an illustrative and evocative musical portrait of a hero that Boshnack has admired since a young age. Bly was a 19th-century daredevil feminist and journalist. The music moves between the narrative and abstract, creating an imaginative world that channels Bly’s groundbreaking spirit. Nellie Bly Project has been very well received and was chosen as one of “The Best Jazz on Bandcamp” for August. To listen and read the reviews, go to Sam’s Nellie Bly Project page – Read here.