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Mike Caudill
Mike Caudill is a Boston-based saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator.
A member of several projects performing across New England and New York, Mike leads his own bands, plays saxophone and electric wind instrument in the jazz-fusion group City of Four, and performs in Felipe Salles’ Interconnections Ensemble, among other groups. Mike has played in historic spaces, ranging from Boston’s Symphony Hall to jazz venues like Sculler’s, Regattabar, NYC’s Birdland, Dizzy’s Club, and The Jazz Gallery. Mike writes for a variety of ensembles, including saxophone quartets, big bands, and orchestras, and his compositions have been performed internationally.
Awards
Multiphonic International Composition Competition for Saxophone Quartet 2026, Jâca Emerging Composers Competition 2021, Ithaca College Jazz Composition Contest 2019-20, 360 Degree Jazz Initiative 2016, ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award 2014, Theodore Presser Undergraduate Scholar, UMass Amherst 2013
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Mike Thompson: 6th Avenue
by Jack Bowers
Composer and arranger Mike Thompson was in his mid-twenties when 6th Avenue, his debut album as leader of a big band, was recorded (in the mid-2020s) at Q Division Studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts, enlisting for the most part veteran Boston-area musicians whom Thompson had met and befriended while studying at the Berklee School of Music, from which he was graduated in 2021. Although Thompson names Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider and Igor Stravinsky as role models, you would be ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Salles: Home Is Here
by Angelo Leonardi
Home Is Here conclude la trilogia del compositore e bandleader brasiliano Felipe Salles (residente dal 1995 negli USA dove insegna all'Università del Massachusetts Amherst) dedicata al tema dell'immigrazione. Un'indagine musicale e multimediale iniziata nel 2018 con The Lullaby Project e proseguita due anni dopo con The New Immigrant Experience, di cui abbiamo già parlato in queste pagine. Qui Salles focalizza il tema dell'immigrazione nel jazz ed ha invitato otto protagonisti della scena di New York ad esibirsi col ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: Home is Here
by Troy Dostert
For the third recording from his Interconnections Ensemble, tenor saxophonist and composer Felipe Salles chose to put the artists first--literally. That is, he had extensive conversations with each of the guest musicians on the record before composing the pieces on which each would be featured, thus highlighting their own stylistic and personal characteristics. The result is a polychromatic, adventurous album that allows Salles' multidimensionality as a composer to flourish. And with top-shelf guests such as Melissa Aldana, Paquito D'Rivera, and ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Salles: The New Immigrant Experience
by Angelo Leonardi
The New Immigrant Experience è un lavoro multimediale, che combina musica orchestrale e proiezioni video, ispirato all'esperienza dei Dreamers, persone protette dal programma Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Accanto al compact disc musicale il progetto include quindi un DVD (curato dalla regista Fernanda Faya) in cui Felipe Salles intervista giovani immigrati, raccogliendo storie di vita spesso dolorose. Quelle testimonianze sono servite al bandleader da ispirazione per questo nuovo lavoro col Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble, una big band di 20 elementi ...
Continue ReadingFelipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: The New Immigrant Experience
by Jack Bowers
Is it mere coincidence, or does the rise in the number of “concept" albums by jazz big bands signal that the trend is here to stay? Trumpeter Brian Lynch won a 2020 Grammy Award for his Journey Through Literature in Music, and there have been other tenet-based enterprises within the past year by Dan Jonas, John Bailey, Eric Weiss, the WDR Big Band, Marcus Shelby, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Chris Jentsch and others. Now comes The New Immigrant Experience, ...
Continue ReadingPrimary Instrument
Saxophone
Location
Boston
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Mild Manners
From: Caught at DuskBy Mike Caudill
Meridian 63
From: Home Is HereBy Mike Caudill
Did You Eat?
From: The New Immigrant ExperienceBy Mike Caudill
