The Reunion Band
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The Reunion Band is an international Live All-Star band featuring Till Bronner
(trumpet), Eric Marienthal
(saxophone), Jim Beard
(keys), Chuck Loeb
(guitar), Timothy Levebvre (bass), Dennis Chambers
(drums). Special guest appearances by Michael Franks (vocals).
Over the years, touring musicians cross paths, share experiences (both on stage and off), and form deep bonds, both musical and personal. Often these relationships are enduring, and the friendships that develop last a lifetime. The members of Reunion have a collective relationship built on many such experiences.
As members of world famous bands, Jim Beard
, Till Bronner
, Dennis Chambers
, Timothy Levebvre, Chuck Loeb
, and Eric Marienthal
, have worked together on timeless recordings and in performances on all the major stages across the international world of Jazz.
Each has a list of impressive credits as performers, recording artists, composers, and producers. Some of the music world’s most iconic figures have enlisted their talents: Chick Corea
, Stan Getz
, Carlos Santana
, Wynton Marsalis
, Wayne Shorter
, Gato Barbieri, and many more.
So it is a rare occasion when musicians such as these come together as a unit. In the summer of 2006, at the invitation of the promoters, the core of the group shared the stage as a special feature of the 15th anniversary of the Canary Islands Jazz Festival. The experience proved to be a great one for all, and led to the decision to make Reunion a regular event.
Till Brönner
Till Brönner is a German jazz musician, trumpet player, singer, composer, arranger and producer. He has a unique jazz approach influenced by bebop and fusion jazz, but also modern pop music, movie soundtracks , country music and even German pop songs...
(trumpet), Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is a Los Angeles-based contemporary saxophonist best known for his work in the jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz, and pop genres....
(saxophone), Jim Beard
Jim Beard
James Arthur Beard is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist, contemporary instrumental composer, arranger and record producer.- Life and career :...
(keys), Chuck Loeb
Chuck Loeb
Chuck Loeb is a guitarist who performs numerous styles of music, most notably jazz. Loeb's own solo projects have generally been commercially successful crossover jazz, which has "contemporary" or "smooth" jazz....
(guitar), Timothy Levebvre (bass), Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers is an American drummer who has recorded and performed with John Scofield, George Duke, Brecker Brothers, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin, Niacin, Mike Stern, Greg Howe, and many others. Despite a lack of formal training, Chambers has become well known among...
(drums). Special guest appearances by Michael Franks (vocals).
Over the years, touring musicians cross paths, share experiences (both on stage and off), and form deep bonds, both musical and personal. Often these relationships are enduring, and the friendships that develop last a lifetime. The members of Reunion have a collective relationship built on many such experiences.
As members of world famous bands, Jim Beard
Jim Beard
James Arthur Beard is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist, contemporary instrumental composer, arranger and record producer.- Life and career :...
, Till Bronner
Till Brönner
Till Brönner is a German jazz musician, trumpet player, singer, composer, arranger and producer. He has a unique jazz approach influenced by bebop and fusion jazz, but also modern pop music, movie soundtracks , country music and even German pop songs...
, Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers
Dennis Chambers is an American drummer who has recorded and performed with John Scofield, George Duke, Brecker Brothers, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin, Niacin, Mike Stern, Greg Howe, and many others. Despite a lack of formal training, Chambers has become well known among...
, Timothy Levebvre, Chuck Loeb
Chuck Loeb
Chuck Loeb is a guitarist who performs numerous styles of music, most notably jazz. Loeb's own solo projects have generally been commercially successful crossover jazz, which has "contemporary" or "smooth" jazz....
, and Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is a Los Angeles-based contemporary saxophonist best known for his work in the jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz, and pop genres....
, have worked together on timeless recordings and in performances on all the major stages across the international world of Jazz.
Each has a list of impressive credits as performers, recording artists, composers, and producers. Some of the music world’s most iconic figures have enlisted their talents: Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
, Stan Getz
Stan Getz
Stanley Getz was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott...
, Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
, Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...
, Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
, Gato Barbieri, and many more.
So it is a rare occasion when musicians such as these come together as a unit. In the summer of 2006, at the invitation of the promoters, the core of the group shared the stage as a special feature of the 15th anniversary of the Canary Islands Jazz Festival. The experience proved to be a great one for all, and led to the decision to make Reunion a regular event.