Soundsation

Kirk Marcy is a 1983 Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Northern Colorado where he received a Bachelor of Music Education degree. Kirk brought honors to himself and his programs with the 1985 downBeat Magazine award of "Best High School Jazz Ensemble in US and Canada." In 1987 he joined the prestigious Four Freshmen and performed with the Count Basie Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with Buddy Morrow. In 1988, Kirk Marcy returned to the Pacific Northwest to become the Director of Soundsation, the internationally acclaimed vocal jazz ensemble at Edmonds Community College. His duties also include teaching Music Fundamentals, Jazz History and Vocal Jazz Solo Singing classes. An active writer and arranger of vocal jazz music, Kirk has music published through the UNC Jazz Press and Sound Music Publications. In January 1994 he served as guest conductor for the Arizona All-State Jazz Choir, and is in great demand as a clinician/ adjudicator at jazz festivals everywhere. Kirk is a member of MENC, ACDA, and is currently President of the Washington Unit of the International Association of Jazz Educators. He is a primary staff member of the Frank DeMiero Jazz Camp.

In My Life

Kirk Marcy is one of the members of the vocal jazz foursome, "Just For Kicks." When not touring as a performer, he teaches, and directs the mixed voice jazz group, Souindsation, of which he was a former member himself. Standards, such as GershwinÕs "Love Walked In" and EllingtonÕs "DonÕt Get Around Much Anymore" are matched by the boppinÕ scat of "Lemon Drop" and the contemporary and sensual cool of "YouÕre Everything," written by Corea/Potter, and arranged by Michele Weir. The enigmatic Pat Methany composition, "Minuano," beginning with long, open vowels, gradually increases intensity by clipping the note values and shifting the vowels forward. Yumiko Matsuoka YoungÕs velvety "Danny Boy" and the "William Tell Overture" are a cappella (most of the cuts are accompanied).

5432 CD $14.98

Sugar and Spice

1998 recording from Edmonds Community College vocal ensemble Soundsation, directed by Kirk Marcy. A fourteen-voice mixed group, with rhythm combo/piano accompaniment, Soundsation integrates progressive, swing and the occasional arrrangement of a pop chart into a forum for jazz exploration. Whether "Teach Me Tonight," with its extended intro, multi-bar piano solo and improvised melody in the verse, or the arcing "doyts" and charging pace of "Ticket To Ride," Soundsation utilizes all of the tools of the trade. Gene PuerlingÕs "Just In Time" will raise your heart rate with its presto tempo. Ward SwingleÕs arrangements of "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Up A Lazy River" are a cappella (as is "Blame It On My Youth"). The cut-time of the "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" is dramatically revised, for a truly distinctive closer.

5431 CD $14.98

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