Composer and saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf expands his artistic vision with the recording of his next album, “Architecture of Storms” featuring his own 20-member jazz orchestra, Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows. The album will be released on SoundSpore Records on October 2nd, 2020. His works highlight various aspects of the dynamics of personal relationships. Le Boeuf has molded these pieces around the identities and interaction of his diverse ensemble members, who give expression to these relationships through their roles as improvisors.

The title track, “Architecture of Storms” is based around the idea of reflected emotions.  The ensemble’s first self-titled album, released in 2019 on SoundSpore Records, was praised by The New York Times for its “overwhelming beauty” and its “ace ensemble.” This ensemble boasts many of New York’s top young players, including Philip Dizack on trumpet and Julia Easterlin on vocals. 

Remy Le Boeuf’s music is rooted in the jazz tradition and overlaps into the modern classical realm drawing on various influences from Aaron Copland to Bjork.  The saxophonist and composer has worked with a range of collaborators including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, HAIM, JACK Quartet, Knower, Linda Oh, and his own twin brother Pascal, with whom he co-leads the Grammy-nominated ensemble, Le Boeuf Brothers. 

Hailed by the New York Times for its “overwhelming beauty,” Le Boeuf’s latest release for jazz orchestra, Assembly of Shadows (2019), brings together haunting cinematic textures and melody-driven themes.  Aside from being the name of the project, “Assembly of Shadows” is a 30-minute suite in 5 movements. It follows the story of a child who runs away into a nearby forest, gets lost, and falls asleep. When she wakes, all the shadows of the trees come alive and dance with her. They guide her home as the moon sets and she wakes up in her own bed, wondering if it was all a dream. The full album was released on SoundSpore Records on November 1, 2019.

Le Boeuf’s prior release, Light as a Word (2019), is an unfettered artistic vision of profound musical empathy.  Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for its “radiant, uncluttered beauty,” the album features many of Le Boeuf’s long-time collaborators including Walter Smith III, Aaron Parks, Charles Altura, Matt Brewer, and Peter Kronreif.

Le Boeuf often employs literary elements to fuel his compositions as in his recent collaborative album imaginist (2016), a collaboration between Le Boeuf Brothers and JACK Quartet.  The term "imaginist" refers to the early 20th century Russian poetry movement characterized by sequences of arresting images and long chains of metaphors.  Imaginist is structured to unfold like a book – complete with a prologue and epilogue. 

Past Le Boeuf Brothers projects include House Without A Door (2009) "an impressively self-assured new album, which reaches for the gleaming cosmopolitanism of our present era" (New York Times); In Praise of Shadows (2011), which "deftly blends elements of electronica with touches of indie rock and sophisticated jazz writing on this genre-defying project" (JazzTimes); and Remixed an "open-minded and masterfully crafted precursor of things to come" (All About Jazz) featuring remix collaborations with David Binney, Knower, Tim Lefebvre, and others.

After receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Manhattan School of Music in 2009, Le Boeuf has gone on to receive commissions and awards from SFJAZZ, Chamber Music America, The Jerome Foundation, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, Copland House, Copland Fund, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, American Composers Forum, New York Youth Symphony, University of Denver, Keio University, BMI, and the ASCAP Foundation.

Le Boeuf was born in Santa Cruz, CA and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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