By Ted Chubb, on January 28th, 2012%
So 2012 has started with quite a bang for New Tricks. We had five great gigs in the New York city area. I find this quite inspiring seeing that January is usually the slowest month for most bands and musicians. We have been working some mew music out on the band stand and we have a couple more tunes to come but we are close to almost an entire new albums worth of material. This months gigs culminated with two important gigs for the band at Smalls, and the New Brunswick Jazz Project. Both of these groups are outstanding examples of individuals taking on the cause of keeping the jazz community alive and vibrant.
 Smalls is owned and operated by Spike Wilner and we are ecstatic that he continues to ask us to perform there and participate in the performing community there. Smalls has become the center of the NYC jazz scene, . . . → Read More: New Year, New Music, New Gigs, New Tricks!
By Ted Chubb, on January 3rd, 2012%
We will be welcoming in 2012 with a very busy month of January. We have written a bunch of new music and are looking forward to working it out on the band stand. You can catch us at the following-
1/4 The Brooklyn Lyceum 8pm-11pm $10 cover http://www.facebook.com/brooklynlyceum 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215 718.857.4816
1/5 The Pilsner Haus in Hoboken 8pm- 12am. Great beer, german food, atmosphere, and weekly jazz with no cover. http://www.pilsenerhaus.com/ 1422 Grand St. 201-683-5465
1/12 The Garage 10:30pm-2:30am. Come make the late village hang with us!99 7th Avenue South NY, NY (212) 645-0600 http://www.garagerest.com/index.html
1/18 Smalls Jazz Club 11:30-2:00am concert and jam session. 183 West 10th St. NY, NY http://www.smallsjazzclub.com
1/19 Makeda’s presented by the New Brunswick Jazz Project. 338 George St. New Brunswick NJ http://www.nbjp.org/
This year our recent recording “Alternate Side” made a number of “Best of 2011″ lists by some fantastic writers and bloggers. You can check out the articles at the links below.
David Orthmann
Arnaldo Desouteiro- http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2011/12/dec.html
Nacht Records
By Ted Chubb, on June 6th, 2011%
Check out this new review in a great local NY jazz Magazine. You can also find the publication in the corner of the bar in all the best NY jazz clubs. Or you can read it online here.
By Mark Keresman In case you needed to be reminded appearances— and preconceptions—are often deceiving. Take the latest disc by the NYC-area quartet New Tricks—two horns, bass, and drums. One might think the contents are going to be post- Ornette Coleman “out” jazz. Wrong—this foursome forgoes the presence of a chordal instrument (like piano or guitar) not to “depart” from a conventional semblance of harmony but to emphasize harmony. So Alternate Side superficially evokes the classic Ornette Coleman Quartet(s) of the 1950s, the style is surging, hard-swinging hard bop a la Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, and Art Blakey, with wee touches of free jazz (as defined by Don Cherry, Dave . . . → Read More: “Alternate Side” review in Jazz Inside NY Magazine.
By Ted Chubb, on May 13th, 2011%
The ‘less-is-more’ approach seems to pay off for Mike Lee, Ted Chubb, Kellen Harrison and Shawn Baltazor who feel that lacking a polyphonic voice such as a piano or guitar allows them greater freedom for experimentation and improvisation. It may have worked. These tracks seem less like songs and more like organisms, trying to express themselves in a language we can’t understand. . . . → Read More: Muizikreviews.com – “Alternate Side”
By Ted Chubb, on April 30th, 2011%
Here is the spotlight feature in May’s Hot House magazine on page 25! We are very proud to be included in this publication.
Click below for the full screen view then click again at the bottom of the page to enlarge our article.
By Ted Chubb, on April 30th, 2011%
They are so in tune with each other that the co-leaders of New Tricks, tenor saxophonist Mike Lee and trumpeter Ted Chubb, refer to them as “Shellen,” a combination of their first names. . . . → Read More: Shellen gets some home town love!
By Ted Chubb, on April 21st, 2011%
Yes, we now sponsor a local volleyball team! You have to see these t-shirts in action! And yes you can have a New Tricks t-shirt too!
The New Tricks V-Ball Team!
By Ted Chubb, on April 19th, 2011%
Mike's B-Day at the Flamingo Bowl!
After a great weekend in Kalamazoo at the Union Caberet we got up early on sunday morning for a 7 hour drive to St. Louis. We played that evening at the “Bistro” with our friends from Webster Grove High School directed by our friend Kevin Cole. It is amazing to see the amount of kids he can inspire to want to play jazz. Our set went great and it was a pleasure to play in one our country’s great clubs. After the gig, we went out to celebrate Mike’s birthday. After a few libations we headed to the Flamingo Bowl, followed by a sprint through the rain in our suits from the gig. If Mike is our “Old Dog” he certainly was not that night. The next afternoon we went to Webster Groves to work with the students and do our “Jazz is a language” workshop. That evening we . . . → Read More: The Big Push.
By Ted Chubb, on March 27th, 2011%
Here is a link to a new radio interview with Mike on WSUM 91.7 FM in Madison WI on Adam Sorber’s show “Out on a Limb”. Check it out!
By Ted Chubb, on March 18th, 2011%
 Beginning this monday I will no longer be a member of the touring company of “Jersey Boys”. It has been a long 4 1/2 years. Jersey Boys has changed my life in a way that it makes it hard sometimes to remember life before it. However, their is no better way to leave such a comfy gig than to be immediately thrown back into the hyper creative music laboratory that is New Tricks. There have been many ups and downs as I have walked this path, but the ups have been very high and almost make it as if the lows have not existed at all. With the 21st approaching comes the culmination of years of hard work of using my cushy gig to set up my life, but also mark the beginning of a new chapter. A new chapter and renewed dedication to my art form, my band, my career, and my wife.
The new album we are releasing . . . → Read More: Long Road Home
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