BEVAN MANSON ~ COMPOSER, ARRANGER & JAZZ PIANIST
Above: Bevan’s charts for Gary Smulyan being played at Birdland
Bevan's new CD "Talking to Trees" was recently released on Tiger Turn Records.
Listen or purchase mp3's at Apple Music/iTunes and at Amazon Music
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May 4, at 5 PM ~ World Premiere IWATAKI for Solo Clarinet, Jazz Saxophone and Studio Orchestra by Bevan Manson
Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach. For more information click here
Bevan Manson is a composer, pianist, and arranger with one foot firmly planted in the jazz world and the other in the classical world. His music has been placed in films and TV, and he has received composing and arranging commissions from Sierra Chamber Music, the Pacific Philharmonic Foundation, the San Francisco Symphony, First Night Boston, the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, the Wilder Trio and from many extraordinary individual musicians.
Bevan's CDs currently available:
(Click on these images for links to purchase ~ Go to Portfolio page for more information)
What They Have to Say ...
"Manson's composing is brilliant, inventive, witty but never self-consciously clever." - Rafael's MusicNotes.com (Cincinnati)
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"I like Bevan's music on YouTube very much; the first movement of the piece for piano and string trio is the kind of clear American water (or whisky) I want to drink."
- John Harbison
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"Manson's Piano Quartet is powerfully polyrhythmic ... also with sweet lyricism." - Washington Post
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"Bevan spreads a Bach-like web of composition in his improvising, telling a compelling story." - The San Jose Mercury News/Pacifica Tribune
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"A highly imaginative yet accessible jazz pianist." - The Boston Globe