The Chet Doxas Trio ft. Jacob Sacks & Thomas Morgan is a musical sandbox where Doxas’ award winning compositions and these world class improvisers get the chance to play and discover new sonic territories together.
Both the inspiration and the encouragement to put this album together can be traced back to Carla Bley. While on tour together, an early-morning airport transfer saw Doxas discussing future plans with Bley and Steve Swallow, who advised Doxas to write “one song a month”, distraction- free for a year. That process gradually revealed his trio, selected for their personal sensibilities as much as their outstanding technical capabilities.
Eminently imaginative in inspiration, construction and delivery, Doxas’ trio gels immediately to create a varied emotional palette filled with wonder, humor and curiosity. “ A truly personal work of art” - Downbeat Magazine
Ceremonial features some of brightest voices in creative music today performing Chet Doxas’ compositions written in contemplation of the human habit of ritual, gathering and ceremony. Ingrid Laubrock, Tim Berne, Angelica Sanchez, Matt Pavolka, Tom Rainey & Chet weave tapestries made of the sound of history and the human condition.
Rich in Symbols in an ensemble inspired Chet’s love of and background in the visual arts. He composes the music while looking at paintings in museums around the world. In live performances the works are projected behind the group as they perform the corresponding pieces. He has composed and released two full-length albums of music - Rich in Symbols I: NYC 1975-85 & Rich in Symbols II: The Group of 7, Tom Thomson & Emily Carr.
The Doxas Brothers' music is a reflection of their shared history, musical exploration, and profound connection as siblings. Their quartet combines their individual talents and their ability to push boundaries, resulting in a sound that is distinctly their own. Growing up in a household filled with sound, Jim and Chet have been immersed in music since a young age. Their exposure to their father conducting choirs in the living room, hosting jam sessions and recording albums in their home studio sparked their own musical journeys. They have released two albums “The Circle” & “Kindred” for Justin Time Records and continue to be leading voices of the Canadian and international jazz scene.
LARUM is the classicaltronic duo of Chet Doxas and Micah Frank. Their lush and adventurous interpretations of a wide variety of music and genres have made them leading voices on the Brooklyn creative music scene. Their current repertoire includes works by Hildegard von Bingen and interpretations and projections of Cornelius Cardew’s “Treatise”. Collaborators of the group include Taylor Deupree, Emi Makabe, David Torn, Michael Formanek, Bill Orcutt, Jason Nazary & Mary Lattimore
LandLine is a collaborative performing ensemble that connects music and the visual arts through improvisation. The nine-piece group is organized into two quartets: four musicians and four visual artists, with an additional live sound installation artist.
The performances are structured into four, forty-minute segments with three twenty-minute interludes. The four longer concert segments feature the improvising quartet of saxophone, piano, bass, and drums coupled with a quartet of guest visual artists. The twenty-minute interludes are performed by a live sound installation artist. During the performance the audience is invited to move about the space, as one would in a gallery or museum setting, or sit in the reverse-round.
The concept of the group is based on an original composition game that is constantly ongoing amongst the musicians. The process is similar to the children’s game “broken-telephone” but in this case, the ensemble uses musical ideas instead of spoken phrases to compose their repertoire. The band adheres to a strict composition schedule which demands that each member pass along their composed ideas via email every two weeks until twelve pieces have been completed. A version of this approach is then created in concert with the four visual artists creating responsive works on each other’s surfaces. They rotate to adjacent canvases, rolling their materials on carts, after each forty-minute set. This closely resembles the French surrealist technique “cadavre exquis” or “exquisite corps”.