McCormack & Yarde Duo Sign to Edition Records
McCormack & Yarde Duo Sign to Edition Records
Edition Records is extremely proud to announce the signing of McCormack & Yarde Duo featuring Jason Yarde (saxophones) and Andrew McCormack (piano), two of UK’s finest, most sensitive and resourceful musicians. Combining two supremely creative minds in perfect unity McCormack & Yarde Duo are able to deliver both in conception and execution – this is Chamber Jazz at its most elegant! Later this Autumn, they will release the follow up album to their highly acclaimed debut, MY DUO, released in 2009, described by Jazzwise Magazine as “an album of very mature performances and tight narrative focus that presents jazz composition and improvisation as infinitely fluid entities”.Both musicians have been at the forefront of contemporary jazz in the UK for over 10 years but it is with this duo that their collective spirit seems to ignite a greater depth in their compositions and performance. With a 12 date tour earlier this year to Germany as part of the Brit Jazz week as well as a nomination for Best Jazz Ensemble of the Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, this new recording, featuring originals by Yarde and McCormack as well as an arrangement of Gershwins’ classic ‘Embraceable You’, will help put McCormack & Yarde Duo in prime position to create the kind of attention that they fully deserve.
Their, currently untitled, second album will be released worldwide on Edition Records in Autumn 2011 with extensive UK and European touring.
For more information please visit www.editionrecords.com
Jason Yarde started out with the Jazz Warriors as a teenager and went on to MD this landmark orchestra, becoming one of its principal writers. He has a BA (Hons) in Performance Arts from Middlesex University incorporating study at William Paterson College in New Jersey. Jason was the leader of the award-winning group J-Life, has been twice-nominated for a BBC Jazz award for Innovation and the Bird Award of the North Sea Jazz Festival. He has performed with the big bands of McCoy Tyner, Roy Ayers, Andrew Hill, Hermeto Pascoal, Sam Rivers and Manu Dibango, arranging and directing the later for the Barbican Centre. As a musical director, arranger and saxophonist, he has worked with various artists and ensembles from 4hero to Plan B, Bembe Segue to Britten Sinfonia, Terri Walker to TY, Keziah Jones to Kronos Quartet, Jonzi-D to Jack DeJohnette and Dennis Brown to BBC Blast. As a record producer, he has worked extensively for Jazz label Dune Records, completed Gwilym Simcock debut CD on Basho and most recently Empirical’s 2010 MOBO Nominated, ‘Out ‘n’ In’ on Naim Jazz. As well as composing for his own projects, Jason has written for dance, music theatre, opera and TV. Since working with the London Symphony Orchestra through the Panufnik Young Composers scheme, Jason was commissioned in 2007 to arrange the music for Hugh Masekela’s first LSO concert, including his first Flugel Horn concerto; ‘All Souls Seek Joy’. He then became a UBS Soundscapes composer with the Orchestra.. He became a Civitella Ranieri Fellow in 2008 and he served as mentor for TAKEOVER, the first full show and program for Emerging Artists in Residence at the Southbank Centre. Most recently, an orchestral commission for the 2008 BBC Proms ‘Rhythm And Other Fascinations’, won the first ever BASCA award for ‘Contemporary Jazz Composition’ in 2009.
Andrew McCormack launched his solo career in April 2006 with his debut album, ‘Telescope’. The album garnered great critical acclaim and led to him receiving the BBC Jazz Award for ‘Rising Star’ in July 2006. Presenting the award was Courtney Pine OBE who spoke of Andrew’s exceptional musical talent and his pleasure in watching his development as an artist. Since then Andrew has continued to perform throughout the world with various groups including his own and as a pivotal member of the Kyle Eastwood Band which this year included appearances at Juan Les Pins, Marciac Jazz Festival and on Manu Katché’s TV show, ‘One Shot Not’. In 2007 he opened the Young Artist Series in Newbury Spring Festival with an eclectic solo piano recital and in 2008 Andrew’s trio opened the main stage at the Barbican for Branford Marsalis’ Quartet. Andrew has recently been taking private composition lessons with Mark- Anthony Turnage and in 2009 recieved a major commission from the London Symphony Orchestra as part of their Panufnik Young Composers Scheme for a performance at the Barbican in December that year.
For more information please visit:
www.jasonyarde.com
www.myspace.com/andrewmccormack
www.editionrecords.com
www.joyandears.com
www.myduomusic.com
