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City: NEW YORK
State: New York
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/26/2007

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 

Kurt Bacher's Live Performance/Recording Credits:


Jazz:

As a leader:

Kurt Bacher Quintet
Featuring Jean Caze: Trumpet, Harold O'Neal: Piano, Ben Williams: Bass, Joe Saylor: Drums

Bacher's Eleven 
11-Piece Jazz Orchestra featuring all-original compositions and arrangements

As a sideman:

Wynton Marsalis
Wycliffe Gordon
Eric Lewis
Cyrus Chestnut
Steve Kirby
Edy Martinez
John Benitez
Luis Bonilla
Wess 'Warmdaddy' Anderson
Antonio Ciacca
Marcus Printup
Aaron Diehl
Milt Grayson
Bobby Short
Vince Giordano
Jon Hendricks
Aria Hendricks
Judi Silvano
Clark Terry
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Wynton Marsalis Septet
Arturo O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
David Berger Jazz Orchestra
Andy Farber Jazz Orchestra
Valery Ponomarev Big Band
Sherisse Rogers' Project Uprising
Fat Cat Big Band
Russ Kassoff Big Band
Birdland Big Band directed by Tommy Igoe
Gary Morgan's PANAMERICA


Classical/Chamber:

Proteus 7


Pop/R&B:

Aretha Franklin
The Temptations
JoJo
Johnny Mathis
Boz Scaggs
Frankie Valli
The Impressions
Joe Piscopo
David Cassidy
Nees and Vos
Alexander K


Broadway:

Now running:
Memphis
Burn The Floor
West Side Story
In The Heights
Jersey Boys (The story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons)

Previous shows:
9 to 5 (Music by Dolly Parton)
Gypsy (Starring Patti LuPone)
Hot Feet (Music of Earth, Wind ad Fire)
The Dancer's Life (Starring Chita Rivera)
The Boy from Oz (Starring Hugh Jackman)


Jingles:

Chase Bank
Nikon Camera
Tanqueray Gin


Television:

"The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno (2007)
PBS Live Newport Jazz Festival (2004) with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra


Film:

"Treasures of Riverside Park" (2007)


Live Venues:

Village Vanguard
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
Birdland
Jazz Standard
Up-Over Jazz Cafe
Lenox Lounge
Cleopatra's Needle
Fat Cat
Smoke
Makor
Triad
Jazz Gallery
Bowery Poetry Club
Apollo Theatre
Carnegie Hall
Avery Fisher Hall
Alice Tully Hall
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Symphony Hall (Boston)
The Kennedy Center (DC)
Verizon-Kimmel Center (Philadelphia)
Staples Center (LA)
JVC Main Stage (Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI)

Thursday, May 15, 2008 
Kurt Bacher uses Rico saxophone reeds, Vandoren clarinet reeds and Olegatures.


Alto Saxophone:

King Super 20 Silversonic goldplated body 369xxx (1959). Meyer 9mm mouthpiece, LaVoz MH reeds, Olegature.
Selmer Super Balanced Action 37xxx (1948).
Selmer Mark VI 128xxx (1965). Meyer 7mm mouthpiece.

Soprano Saxophone:

King Marigaux SML goldplated 24xxx (1974). Selmer Soloist round-chamber G mouthpiece, Vandoren Traditional 3 reeds, Olegature.
Selmer Mark VI 251xxx (1975). Selmer Soloist round-chamber E mouthpiece.

Tenor Saxophone:

Selmer Super 14xxx (1930). Otto Link 9* hard rubber mouthpiece, LaVoz MH reeds, Olegature.
Selmer Mark VI 213xxx (1971). Otto Link 7* brass mouthpiece, or Otto Link 6* hard rubber mouthpiece.

Baritone Saxophone:

Conn Chu Berry New Wonder low Bb silverplated 202xxx (1930). Otto Link 9* brass mouthpiece, LaVoz MH reeds, Olegature.
Selmer Mark VI low A 192xxx (1970). Otto Link 7* brass mouthpiece, or Otto Link 6* hard rubber mouthpiece.

Flute:

Powell handmade low B 31xx (1969).
Haynes handmade low B 30xxx (1961).

Piccolo:

G. Opperman handmade grenadilla 214xxx (2007).

Alto Flute:

Gemeinhardt w/solid silver headjoint 21xx (1965).

Clarinet:

Buffet R-13 83xxx (1964). Vandoren B40 13 mouthpiece, Vandoren V12 3 ½ reeds, Vandoren Optimum ligature or D. Bonade ligature.
Selmer Centered Tone N87xx (1951). Morgan RM-28 mouthpiece, Vandoren Traditional 3 reeds, Olegature.

Eb Clarinet:

Buffett RC Prestige (2007). Vandoren B40 13 mouthpiece, Vandoren V12 3 ½ reeds, Vandoren Optimum ligature or D. Bonade ligature.

Bass Clarinet:

Selmer 67 low C Q018xx (2007). Selmer C* mouthpiece, Vandoren Traditional 3 reeds, Vandoren Optimum ligature or D. Bonade ligature.
Selmer Series 9 low Eb V14xx (1967). H. Couf mouthpiece, LaVoz MH tenor sax reeds, Olegature.

Oboe:

Loree AK Bore RNxx (2008).

Laubin 21xx (1996).

English Horn:

Loree 'D' Series DIxx (1974). Hiniker bocal.