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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra Website
NINE WINDS DISCOGRAPHY:
NWCD0155 Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - Aardvark Steps Out
NWCD0201 Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - An Aardvark Christmas
THE AARDVARK JAZZ ORCHESTRA has performed in Boston in a variety of venues including FIRST NIGHT at the Berklee Performance Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, The DeCordova Museum, the Hatch Shell, Boston City Hall Plaza, MIT, New England Conservatory, the Boston New Music Harvest Festival, and many churches. On tour, Aardvark has performed at the Jacob's Pillow/New Music Series, Wesleyan and Princeton Universities, and Saint Peter's Church in NYC. Guest artists who have appeared with the ensemble include Sheila Jordan, Jaki Byard, and Jimmy Giuffre.
AARDVARK IS: Arni Cheatham, Peter Bloom, Phil Scarff, Brad Jones, Mark Messier, Vinny Golia and Tom Hall, Daniel Smith and Stan Strickland / SAXES & WOODWINDS, K. C. Dunbar, Jeanne Snodgrass, Greg Kelley, Mike Peipman/ TRUMPETS, Marshall Sealy, John Patton/ FRENCH HORNS, Bob Pilkington, Jay Keyser / TROMBONES, Jeff Marsanskis, Bill Lowe / BASS TROMBONES, TUBAS, Richard Nelson / GUITAR, Ken Filiano, Jim Whitney, Harold Anderson/ CONTRABASSES, Jerry Edwards / ELECTRIC BASS, VOCALIST, John Funkhouser/ ELECTRIC PIANO, Harry Wellott / DRUMS, Craig Ellis / PERCUSSION, Donna Hewitt-Didham / VOCALIST, Mark Harvey / MUSIC DIRECTOR, TRUMPET.
Mark Harvey is the founder and music director of Aardvark. He has played throughout the Northeast, in California, Mexico and Germany, recorded with George Russell (Blue Note) and Baird Hersey's "Year of the Ear" (Arista/Novus), and appeared with Gil Evans, Howard McGhee, and Claudio Roditi, among many others. As a composer, he has received awards from ASCAP, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and a commission from the Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Commissioning Program. He is also a United Methodist minister and teaches at MIT.
