Marc T. Bolin
I have been fortunate enough to perform with some of the world's finest organizations. Some highlights of my career have been: playing Trad Jazz in a State Tour of China, performing with the Ambassadors of New Orleans' Jazz at the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel, In 1999, I was part of a "The Last Swing of the Century Tour." A 13-piece band that toured the US for 3-months celebrating the music of jazz legend Benny Goodman with Clarinetist Ken Peplowski (To date, that tour was one of two times such permission has been given permission by the Goodman Estate and Bill Hyland, its executor,) and I performed in two of Philip Glass' Operas "Akhenaten" and "La Belle et la Bete," as well as some of my heroes and favorite bands Carla Bley, Johnny Rivera, Herman Olivera, Pete Escovedo, Sheila E,
Black Eyed Peas and the Ink Spots.
In 2007 Marc was awarded a commission to realize Duke Ellington's incomplete opera Queenie Pie for the Oakland Opera. I was then engaged by Kenny Burrell to conduct a concert version of Queenie Pie for the 100th Birthday Celebration for Duke Ellington at UCLA and was most recently a speaker at the Echoes of Ellington Conference where a production of Queenie Pie, by the Butler School of Music, was the centerpiece. read more
Black Eyed Peas and the Ink Spots.
In 2007 Marc was awarded a commission to realize Duke Ellington's incomplete opera Queenie Pie for the Oakland Opera. I was then engaged by Kenny Burrell to conduct a concert version of Queenie Pie for the 100th Birthday Celebration for Duke Ellington at UCLA and was most recently a speaker at the Echoes of Ellington Conference where a production of Queenie Pie, by the Butler School of Music, was the centerpiece. read more
What they are saying about Queenie Pie:
"...the audience was transported to the glorious musical world of classic Ellingtonia."
"The evening's most reliable pleasures...which makes everything from a sultry overture to bluesy ballads to a calypso eruption in the second act sound confident and suave...When the score segues from the operetta-style ornaments of "Won't You Come Into My Boudoir?" to the softy caressing "On a Turquoise Cloud" late in the second act, you feel the seductive, unorthodox contours of Queenie Pie emerge." Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
"...genre-bending African-American opera "buffa"...Oakland Opera Theater's production of QUEENIE PIE is not only a spectacular jazz-opera, but it restores an important American work to the world's opera repertoire..." read more
"...the audience was transported to the glorious musical world of classic Ellingtonia."
"The evening's most reliable pleasures...which makes everything from a sultry overture to bluesy ballads to a calypso eruption in the second act sound confident and suave...When the score segues from the operetta-style ornaments of "Won't You Come Into My Boudoir?" to the softy caressing "On a Turquoise Cloud" late in the second act, you feel the seductive, unorthodox contours of Queenie Pie emerge." Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
"...genre-bending African-American opera "buffa"...Oakland Opera Theater's production of QUEENIE PIE is not only a spectacular jazz-opera, but it restores an important American work to the world's opera repertoire..." read more
Upcoming events:
Home for the Holidays!!! I'm on vacation until January 4th.
I do have some gigs or events that I'll be attending.
Home for the Holidays!!! I'm on vacation until January 4th.
I do have some gigs or events that I'll be attending.
I'll be in Cleveland on the 28th playing with the MOJO Generations Big Band |
Recent Blog Posts:
Realizing the Duke
Culturally Signifigant Contributions
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