A Repeat-Command Performance!
Chaise Lounge with the Capitol City Symphony!

Sat. September 25, 2010
8pm

This will be the CD release event for our new CD Symphony Lounge featuring Chaise Lounge with The Capitol City Symphony conducted by Victoria Gau.

Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202.399.7993
www.atlasarts.org

“Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me”

A sneak preview from our new CD Symphony Lounge featuring Chaise Lounge with The Capitol City Symphony conducted by Victoria Gau.

“Be Cool”

Chaise Lounge plays “Be Cool” at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. See more music videos of live performances on the Media page.

What the Bandmates Are Up To

Now, as for our members... we tried the suspended animation tanks in between Chaise Lounge gigs, but everyone's fingers got really stiff, and it took Gary and John forever to regain their horn chops. So instead, we do other stuff...

Pete has been performing with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra, which specializes in tangos and recently rocked Lisner Auditorium. Some very cool music. He's looking forward to a May concert with the McLean Orchestra. And by the way, did you notice him in the orchestra bass section at the Atlas for “The Tarot?” He was the only one in the band with a wardrobe change!

John Jensen recently played a concert in Delaware Water Gap with the trombone legend, Urbie Green. Urbie has played with numerous iconic figures in American music and jazz including Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Urbie is 84 now and John reports, “He has a lot of music in him...He plays with warmth, wit and passion.” People came from all over North America to listen. A repeat performance is already scheduled for August 14, 2010.

John also performs frequently with his quartet, trio and in duo settings featuring songs and stories from the great American songbook. He's been spotted recently playing the didgeridoo and various sea shells. He skipped a recent Chaise Lounge rehearsal to play at the Helen Hayes Awards... we totally understand. He has just returned from Omaha Nebraska where he performed with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.

Tommy Barrick recently archived a collection of Gerry Mulligan's music for the Library of Congress, and is currently working on the musical arrangements from the Bob Hope Collection. He is also preparing materials for the annual Koussevitzky Music Foundation (commissioning) meeting in NYC headed by composer, conductor Guther Schuller, mid May.

Gary Gregg's non-Chaise Lounge time is taken up by "casual" gigs in the DC area. He gets a good workout on BG-style clarinet playing with the Blue Sky 5(+2). His "chicken fat" tenor sax workout surfaces with his gigs with Dave Kitchen and the Cutaways while his tenor "swing" chops are exposed with the SingCo orchestra. Gary also does a monthly stint with the Washington Conservatory of Music Traditional Jazz Ensemble performing "moldy fig" trad jazz tunes. He also spends his weekends teaching jazz to young jazz players.

Marilyn has been exploring her coquettish Mo side as she continues recording a CD of duets with the DC's answer to Tony Bennett, Dick Kaufmann. They are traveling back in time, singing old love songs as well as adding a twist to some Chaise Lounge tunes.

Marilyn also attended a Holistic Practitioners' retreat at Virginia Beach where she wore her marketing and business development consulting hat. While her presentation was very well received, she says that the real success of the weekend was finding a bit of inner peace. (You can really only have so much of that with a horn section in your right ear!)

After the concert at the Atlas Charlie took off for a week vacation at Point Reyes National Seashore which is located about 2 hours north of San Fransisco. "Everything is so completely chill there," he says. “Even me, and I don't come by chill very easily.” Back now... Charlie is always busy with any number of film and recording projects. One of his recent scores is for the film “The Other City.” It is a film about the AIDS epidemic (yes you are reading that correctly) in Washington DC. The big news is that this film by Susan Koch is premiering at Martin Scorcese and Robert DiNiro's Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2010. Also you may have recently seen a lot of footage from “Coal Country,” another of his recent film scores. Unfortunately the reason you have seen so much of it, is last week's mining disaster in West Virginia. As we write, he is polishing a score for a film for the Field Museum in Chicago about the Tyranasaurus Rex named Sue that is the most complete T-Rex ever unearthed. The film is in 3-D... how current!

Charlie also proudly spends a fair amount of time as president of the board of Maryland Youth Ballet. He is also going to an acupuncturist (for even more chill) - just wanted everyone to know that for some reason.

Update on New CDs and More

We are completing our 3rd album (title and release date TBA) as well as a LIVE CD of our concert with The Capital City Orchestra on March 21st, Symphony Lounge. Chaise Lounge was mentioned in a local issue of The DCist which we thought was pretty cool, and a version of our song “I Don't Want to” will be used in the promotional spots for a new PBS show called My Generation. Looks like we we also be making our debut at the The Barns at Wolftrap in the fall so stay tuned for more!

Live at the Kennedy Center

On January 31, 2010, Chaise Lounge performed on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center. You can watch the whole show at the Kennedy Center website.