Chris Heslop Jazz Orchestra
After three years of intensive writing with the BMI/New York Jazz Orchestra, Chris has formed a Philadelphia-based all-star ensemble to execute his challenging repertoire.
Works influenced by classics like Basie, Ellington, Kenton and modernists like Abene and McNeely as well as French Impressionists, Sci-Fi films and Sasquatch will be performed along with several fresh arrangements of timeless jazz standards.
Chris Heslop Jazz Orchestra Demo
~ a thirteen-minute collage of Chris's compositions ~
(excerpts from Tremmy Trilly, Plunky, iChart, Pretty Song, Pirates on the Moon, Bumpy, Gettin' Some, Space Shanty, Awkardly Mobile, and A.D.D. blues)
Recorded live at Gerald Veasley's Jazz Base on June 4, 2009