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ASMAC Big Band Hanginar: John Altman and His Big Band Arrangements
John Altman will share insight into his big band arrangements and entertaining stories with host Scott Healy.
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Wednesday, May 31 · 1 - 4pm PDT
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ASMAC Big Band Hanginar: John Altman and His Big Band Arrangements
LA 1 PM | NY 4 PM | UK 9 PM | FR 10 PM | UA 11 PM | JP 5 AM (+ 1 day) | AUS (Sydney) 6 AM (+ 1 day)
Note: early start time of 1pm PDT (UTC-07) and in the UK 9pm BST (UTC+01).
John Altman will share insight into his big band arrangements with host Scott Healy.
- An in-depth look at John's vocal arrangements with entertaining stories about the sessions
- Björk's biggest hit It's Oh So Quiet which reached number 4 in the UK with 15 weeks on the UK Singles Chart.
- A vocal arrangement for Jane Horrocks from the film Little Voice.
- John's sketching process.
- Writing a Mambo.
- Arranging for period pieces reflecting 100 years of big band styles from the 1920s to 2020s.
- Writing for a combo within a big band featuring a Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker style duet in a dialogue against the whole band.
John Altman
John Altman is a film composer, music arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and saxophonist. Among the 54 movies he composed, arranged, and orchestrated for are Titanic (period music), Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and Goldeneye, winning a BAFTA Award for Hear My Song and a Golden Globe for orchestrating Sheltering Sky and Léon: The Professional. He also won an Emmy for his score for RKO281, was nominated for Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, and received a nomination for the Golden Reel award for Little Voice. In addition to writing a 100-minute score for the silent movie Shooting Star for the London Film Festival Gala, John has his name as an arranger on 19 platinum records, including George Michael's album “Faith”, which won several GRAMMYs in 1989 including Album of the Year, and was nominated for the Rutles film All You Need Is Cash. He wrote for Simple Minds, Barry White, Tina Turner, Björk, Diana Ross, Tom Jones, Pretenders, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, and many others and has scored over 4,000 commercials worldwide to boot.
Read more of John's stories and life in his fabulous memoir Hidden Man: My Many Musical Lives (2022).
If you're around the UK, you can see John playing this month:
- Sat 13 May 2023, 10am BST, Ruth Fisher's Prosecco Jazz Brunch featuring John Altman in Watford.
- Tue 23 May 2023 8pm BST, John Altman Quartet at the 606 Club in Chelsea. Quartet is John with pianist Mike Gorman, bassist Andy Cleyndert, and drummer Chris Higginbottom.
- Sun 28 May 2023 1pm BST, John Altman "Hidden Man" Big Band at PizzaExpress Jazz Club (SoHo).
Photo credit: Hidden Man book cover by Dawn Bowery.
Scott Healy
Moderator and ASMAC Board Member Scott Healy is an LA-based, Grammy-nominated composer, producer, pianist, and multi-keyboardist, best known for playing in the house band for Conan O’Brien. Scott's Website
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ASMAC is an organization whose mission is to promote the arts of Music Arranging, Composition, and Orchestration within the entertainment industry community and the general public. ASMAC presents monthly master classes, workshops, luncheons, and other programs for established composers, arrangers, and orchestrators as well as students entering the field. Visit www.asmac.org for more info.