Monday, October 25, 2010

Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble, with Multi-Grammy Nominne Drummer Bobby Sanabria

Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble, with Multi-Grammy Nominne Drummer Bobby Sanabria
Performs November 9, 2010 - At The Baha'I Center

New York City: Eugene Marlow’s The Heritage Ensemble will perform two sets this coming November 9, 2010 at the 140-seat Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium. World-renowned multi-Grammy-nominated drummer Bobby Sanabria will perform with the group.

 The John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie Auditorium (part of the Jazz at the Baha’i Center) is located at 53 East 11th Street (between University Place and Broadway), New York City. There will be two sets: 8:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $15; $10 with student ID at the door. Advance tickets may be purchased by credit card only by calling 212-222-5159.


About The Heritage Ensemble 
Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble is a quintet devoted to the concert performance of Hebraic  melodies in various jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and neo-classical styles. For this performance the group consists of: Eugene Marlow (founder/leader/piano/arranger), Bobby Sanabria (drums), Michael Hashim (alto/soprano saxophones), Frank Wagner (acoustic bass), and Cristian Rivera (percussion). All arrangements are by founder/leader Eugene Marlow.

 The Heritage Ensemble has performed its unique set of arrangements at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Engelman Recital Hall (Baruch Performing Arts Center), the Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue, the Riverdale YM-YMHA, The Riverdale Home for the Aged, Hunter College, the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, Symphony Space, and Tavern on the Green (New York City), among other venues. On December 16 it will perform its “Celebrations” album at Engelman Recital at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.

 Its most recent album is “Celebrations: The Heritage Ensemble Interprets Festive Melodies From the Hebraic Songbook” (MEII Enterprises 2010). Its inaugural CD is “Making the Music Our Own” (MEII Enterprises 2006). Both CDs are available at
cdbaby.com.

What People Have Said About The Heritage Ensemble
"Gene Marlow's 'Making the Music Our Own' is a remarkable musical achievement--
traditional liturgical melodies meet up with a contemporary jazz sensibility, and are
rediscovered in a new musical and spiritual light!" -
Isaiah Sheffer Artistic Director Emeritus
Symphony Space, New York City


“Gene Marlow’s performance with The Heritage Ensemble stands out as one of the more exciting events presented at the synagogue. The concert built towards an amazing climax as jazz mixed with folk and sacred.” - Hanna Griff-Sleven, Ph.D. Director, Cultural Programs And the Family History Center The Eldridge Street Synagogue


"Your remarkable ingenuity in resetting very familiar Hebraic melodies into concert-jazz settings inspires a sense of renewed commitment to our Jewish heritage, and reminds us that
we are a surviving people precisely because of our abilities to adapt to new realms and bring our unique culture and philosophies always into the present." - Charles M. Mirotznik, Esq. former President Dance Library of Israel


Hadassah Markson Former Music Director, 92nd Street Y, President, Center for Contemporary Opera
"The Heritage Ensemble concert at the Riverdale Y was superb. We enjoyed it so much as it encompassed both the Jewish music with which we are familiar and the jazz arrangements that we all love so much. . . .Your group is a wonderful way to introduce young people to jazz, a genre that seems unfamiliar to younger generations. It's too good not to be shared by music lovers of all ages." - Gerald P. Goldsmith, Esq. Program Chairman and Secretary Riverdale YM-YWHA (New York City)Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark Co-Host and Co-Producer "Beyond The Pale: The Progressive Jewish Radio Hour" WBAI (New York City)

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