Dan Weiss Sixteen - Drummers Suite (2016)

Sixteen: Drummers Suite is the highly anticipated follow-up to Fourteen, drummer/composer Dan Weiss’s brilliantly ambitious opus for fourteen musicians. Nate Chinen of the New York Times named it one of his top ten releases of 2014, and Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen called it “a blazingly creative effort. Ultimately, its audacious and unconventional success is uplifting, a testament to whats possible and what can be imagined.” Sixteen is even more daring: The ensemble is now comprised of sixteen musicians, featuring drums, acoustic bass, guitar, piano, synthesizer, three saxophones, two trombones, tuba, flute, three voices, harp, glockenspiel, organ, vibraphone, tabla and percussion, giving the work even greater sonic scope. Like on Fourteen, the work is an unique amalgam of jazz, Indian music, prog rock, contemporary classical music, and other completely idiosyncratic influences, all woven by Weiss into a completely sui generismusical tapestry.

Dan Weiss - drums, tabla, vocal percussion, compositions
Thomas Morgan - acoustic bass
Jacob Sacks - piano
Matt Mitchell - piano, keyboards, organ, vibraphone, glockenspiel
Miles Okazaki - guitar, vocal percussion
Miguel Zenón - alto saxophone
David Binney - alto saxophone
Ohad Talmor - tenor saxophone
Anna Weber - flute, alto flute
Jacob Garchik - trombone, tuba
Ben Gerstein - trombone
Katie Andrews - harp
Stephen Cellucci - percussion, vocal percussion
Judith Berkson - voices
Lana Is - voices
Jen Shyu - voices