Jody Redhage Ferber, Alan Ferber, Mark Ferber
CONFLUENCE out now on All Platforms!
CONFLUENCE features Jody Redhage Ferber (cello), Alan Ferber (Trombone), and Mark Ferber (drums), and centers the groups creative re-imagining of Bach's Suite No. 3 in C Major for Solo Cello arranged for the three of us, along with complementary chamber jazz repertoire by Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner, Todd Sickafoose, Kenny Wheeler, and Alan Ferber. The group premiered this creative Bach arrangement at Carnegie's Weill recital hall, and will perform it again at a Carnegie Hall Presents Concert this spring.
Meet the Artists..
Jody Redhage Feber: https://www.jodyredhageferber.com/
Performer, composer, and presenter Jody Redhage Ferber creates immersive music experiences that explore the connections between performers, audiences, and nature. Blending chamber music sensitivity with jazz improvisation, she has performed on five continents at venues including Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Hollywood Bowl, and major jazz festivals worldwide. Praised as an “adventurous cello songstress,” she has commissioned over 30 new works and released the acclaimed album Minutiae and Memory. A collaborator across genres—from Esperanza Spalding to Terry Riley—Jody leads projects like EcoTones Concerts and Rose & the Nightingale, and develops innovative educational programs linking music, poetry, and the natural world.
Alan Ferber: https://www.alanferber.com/
Multiple GRAMMY-nominated trombonist, composer, and arranger Alan Ferber is acclaimed as “one of the jazz world’s premier composers and arrangers for larger groups” (All About Jazz). DownBeat named him 2022’s top “Rising Star Trombonist.” He has released nine albums as a bandleader, including Up High, Down Low and the GRAMMY-nominated Jigsaw, and composed for big bands, video games, and artists across jazz, pop, and classical genres. Ferber performs and records widely, collaborates with Esperanza Spalding, Miguel Zenón, Sufjan Stevens, and Peter Gabriel, and teaches at NYU, Montclair State, and BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, mentoring the next generation of jazz artists.
Mark Feber: https://www.markferber.com/
Drummer Mark Ferber appears on over 200 recordings and performs with projects including ECM artist Ralph Alessi’s This Against That, the Marc Copland Quartet, the Brad Shepik Organ Trio, and his twin brother Alan Ferber’s GRAMMY-nominated big band and nonet. He maintains a busy freelance schedule across New York and Los Angeles, performing, recording, and touring internationally. Mark has collaborated with Lee Konitz, Gary Peacock, Don Byron, Fred Hersch, and many others. A dedicated educator, he has taught across the U.S. and Europe and is currently Professor of Drumset at Cal State University, Fresno.