Excerpt from the Zubatto Syndicate website "About page"
The Zubatto Syndicate is a new 12-piece ensemble under the direction of composer and guitarist Andrew Boscardin. This exciting new group – a highly original take on the Big Band and jazz orchestra traditions – made its debut on November 5, 2009 at Town Hall Seattle. Featuring a unique synthesis of reed instruments and electric sounds, brass and electric guitar and bass, Zubatto targets the musical place where Maria Schneider meets the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the Roots meet Radiohead by way of Mingus. The music combines detailed arrangements and inventive harmonic ideas with rhythmic settings and idioms atypical of the jazz orchestra, as realized by the some of the top improvising musicians in Seattle.
Zubatto Syndicate is:
Byron Vannoy – drums
David Marriott, Jr. – trombone
Greg Sinibaldi – bass clarinet and tenor saxophone
Francine Peterson – bassoon
Chad McCullough – trumpet
Janet Putnam – oboe and English horn
Tim Carey – bass
Mack Grout – keys
Mark Taylor – alto saxophone
Jim DeJoie – baritone saxophone
Jesse Canterbury – clarinet
Andrew Boscardin – guitar
