Sonic Explorers are a creative and inspired acoustic jazz quintet. Their repertoire focuses on the original instrumental compositions of Jerry Sabatini. Compositions influenced by many styles, including modern, bebop and avant garde jazz, 20th Centur [+]Sonic Explorers are a creative and inspired acoustic jazz quintet. Their repertoire focuses on the original instrumental compositions of Jerry Sabatini. Compositions influenced by many styles, including modern, bebop and avant garde jazz, 20th Century Classical, Eastern, Middle Eastern and Balkan folk music as well as Latin, funk and rhythm & blues.
The band performs with a high level of musicality, energy and spirit while combining sensitive group interplay with dynamic solo improvisations. Their explorations of both written and improvisational music make each live performance a unique and exciting experience.
Their 1996 “Birth of the Kakalla” (Nada Brahma Records) release features the following New England-based musicians:
Jerry Sabatini is the leader and principal composer/arranger for Sonic Explorers. He plays trumpet and flugelhorn with a profoundly unique style influenced by his love for such trumpet greats as Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan, Don Cherry and Dave Douglas. He has studied jazz improvisation, theory and arranging at SUNY at Buffalo as well as improvisation and composition for many years with internationally renowned jazz tenor saxophonist, Jerry Bergonzi. His compositional education comes mostly from the “self-taught school” and is inspired by his vast love of jazz, classical and world music.
He has led and co-led many musical projects and appears as a sideman on many US New England recordings and live performances including work with avant garde pop group and Sub-Pop recording artists Combustible Edison and modern jazz quartet Kakalla led by bassist Thomson Kneeland. However since 1995, Sonic Explorers remain his brainchild and primary focus, both in terms of his work as a composer as well as a contemporary jazz musician.
He is also a private trumpet instructor, teaches jazz improvisation and directs jazz ensembles at the Joy of Music Program in Worcester, MA.
John Vaillancourt performs on tenor and soprano saxophones as well as flute, clarinet and EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument). He studied music and jazz at UMASS at Lowell under Mike Monaghan and Tom Ferrante as well as privately with Jerry Bergonzi. He has been heard with the Jane Miller Quartet and the Mark Marquis Group with whom he has also
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