Tracy Yang on Adding Personality to Your Solo Backgrounds

Composer Tracy Yang explores how choices about atmosphere, texture, and density can guide your improvising soloist through the storyline of your piece using her composition “Industrial Zone (Scene Taiwan III)”. Visit JazzComposersP... to watch full-length livestreams.
Intentional choices about atmosphere, texture, and density help guide your soloist through the storyline of your composition. Using her piece “Industrial Zone”, composer and pianist @TracyYang217 explores adding personalities to your solo backgrounds
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Tracy Yang is a New York-based composer, arranger, performer, and photographer, originally from Taiwan. Yang’s composition "Sea of Clouds" received the Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize and Manny Albam Commission from the BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop in 2021. The commission piece "Sea Swell" was premiered in June 2022 in New York at Dizzy's Jazz at Lincoln Center. Yang was both the Winner and Honorable Mention of the 2018 Jazz Composition Contest for Women Composers from Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO). The performance was part of the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle and featured Sheryl Bailey as a guest artist. She was also part of the 2019 Young Composer Showcase selectees from JEN (Jazz Education Network). The 2019 JEN YCS was performed by the Army Jazz Ambassadors at the JEN conference in Reno, Nevada. Yang has worked with many different jazz ensembles, including The Army Jazz Ambassadors, Seattle Women Jazz Orchestra, BMI/New York Jazz Orchestra, and Taipei Jazz Orchestra. Additionally, Yang has been a grant recipient from institutions such as The Queens Council on the Arts, Passim Iguana Music Fund, and Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation. Yang released her first EP “The 217 Diaries” in early 2021 and is hard at work on her upcoming jazz orchestra album.
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AUDIO CREDITS
Intro: “Chance Encounter”, composed by Daniel Jamieson. Performed by Danjam Orchestra, on the album “Sudden Appearance” (2011) OA2 Records. danjam.ca
Examples: “Industrial Zone (Scene Taiwan III)”, composed by Tracy Yang. Performed by the Tracy Yang Jazz Orchestra on their upcoming album (2023).
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Closing: “Crunchy Peanut Butter”, composed by Daniel Jamieson. Performed by Danjam Orchestra, on the album “Sudden Appearance” (2011) OA2 Records. danjam.ca

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