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9 Horses is a chamber jazz supergroup from the United States, consisting of composer and mandolinist Joseph Brent, violinist Sara Caswell, and bassist Shawn Conley, originating from New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.josephbrent.com/9horses )〕 ==History== Brent and Conley first played together in 2010 in Brent's short-lived project The Joe Brent Quartet, which also featured clarinetist Hideaki Aomori and guitarist Nadav Lev,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jalopy.biz/performance_show.php?eventid=1629 )〕 but when Brent's commitments to Regina Spektor's touring band and his teaching responsibilities at Mannes College spread his time too thin, he put the quartet project on hold. In 2012, he started performing as a duo with Caswell,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/joe-brent-sara-caswell-mw0002738273/releases )〕 and after releasing ''Joe Brent & Sara Caswell EP'' together in 2013, they decided to add a bass player and Brent called on Conley once again. After making the finals of the 2014 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wfmt.com/main.taf?p=1,3,3,4 )〕 they were signed to Sunnyside Records and released their debut album, ''Perfectest Herald'' in October, 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://muzoic.com/en/release/album/9-horses-perfectest-herald )〕 The recording includes percussionist Ben Wittman, but live performances generally feature the trio alone. Brent is originally from Queens, New York, but spent much of his childhood in Tampa, Florida. Caswell is originally from Bloomington, Indiana, while Conley hails from Honolulu, Hawaii. All three currently live in the New York City vicinity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://jenkinshouseconcerts.blogspot.com/2015/08/opening-concert-9-horses-on-september-11.html )〕 Brent was formerly a member of Regina Spektor's band, is an active classical soloist, and, with Caswell, he occasionally performs with Kishi Bashi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/3672939-Kishi-Bashi-String-Quartet-The )〕 Caswell is also a member of Esperanza Spalding's Chamber Music Society〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sfjazz.org/events/esperanza-spalding )〕 and David Krakauer's The Big Picture. Conley performs with The Knights, a New York-based New Music orchestra, as well as Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project and the touring ensemble of jazz vocalist Cyrille Aimée. The trio's music, all of which is composed or arranged by Brent, combines elements of improvised musical forms with classical chamber music and Brent's own indie rock influences. The four movement piece entitled ''Perfectest Herald'' which gives the album its name and acts as its centerpiece contains elements of rock, new music, Middle Eastern music, jazz, rhythm and blues, and traditional classical music, most notably in the 2nd movement, ''listening to the Elliott Smith discography in reverse order'', in which a single musical subject passes through all of the aforementioned genres and a fugue before recapitulating.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/perfectest-herald-mw0002879587 )〕 The music for the 'Perfectest Herald' suite has been called, "...among the most life affirming one will ever hear... Regardless of which emotional depths Brent drew on to compose these pieces, this highly emotive music touches and communicates the essence of what it means to be an alive, feeling human being." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「9 Horses」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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