Lenny Pickett: A Short March into the Future

A Short March into the Future features 12 musicians playing music without amplification. The music is elegiac and contrapuntal and has its roots in rhythm and blues and electronic music. The ensemble includes two tubas, three saxophones, (doubling clarinets) two trumpets (doubling flugelhorns), accordion, piano, six-string banjo, upright bass, mallets, drums, and percussion. The fourteen pieces vary in length from one to seven minutes. This program is dedicated to Hal Willner. Steven Bernstein: trumpet and flugelhorn Ravi Best: trumpet and flugelhorn Ron Blake: baritone and soprano saxophones Jasper Dutz: alto and soprano saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet Vitor Gonçalves: accordion and piano John Hadfield: drums and percussion Tyler McDiarmid: six string banjo Valerie Naranjo: mallets and percussion Rebecca Patterson: trombone and tuba Lenny Pickett: tenor saxophone and E-flat and alto clarinets Marcus Rojas: tuba and euphonium Ricardo Rodriguez: