Event

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society

WINDS
Sharel Cassity
Rob Wilkerson
Sam Sadigursky
Lucas Pino
Carl Maraghi

TRUMPETS
Bryan Davis
Tatum Greenblatt
Amir El-Saffar
Nadje Noordhuis
Ingrid Jensen

TROMBONES
Alan Ferber
Darius Christian Jones
Jacob Garchik
Jennifer Wharton

RHTYHM
Sebastian Noelle, guitar
Bobby Avey, piano
Matt Clohesy, bass
Jon Wikan, drum set

Brooklyn-based composer-bandleader Darcy James Argue, a seven-time winner in the DownBeat Critics Poll, is credited with "making the big band cool again" (Time Out New York) and "reinventing the jazz big band for the 21st century" (John L. Walters, The Guardian). Active in New York with his 18-piece ensemble Secret Society since 2005, the Vancouver native first gained international recognition with his widely acclaimed 2009 debut, Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam Records), which appeared on over 100 best-of-the-year lists, earned GRAMMY and JUNO nominations, and quickly made him one of the most talked about musicians in jazz.

In addition to appearances at venues ranging from jazz and rock clubs to theaters including Merkin Hall, The Kennedy Center, and Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, the group has also performed at the Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver Jazz Festivals, the Ecstatic Music Festival, the London Jazz Festival, the Moers Festival, New York's Winter Jazzfest, the Newport Jazz Festival, and Brazil's BMW Jazz Festival. Argue premieredBrooklyn Babylon, an innovative multimedia collaboration with graphic artist Danijel Zezelj, over the course of four nights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 2011, and recorded the music for a highly praised sophomore release, also on New Amsterdam Records.