The Music of Joseph C. Phillips Jr.

Numinous | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 2003)
• Original Release Date: September 8, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Numen Music
• ASIN: B0000DG74B
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,445,456 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. To Kyoto

2. Lost in the Stars

3. A Tear of the Clouds

4. Sweetness

5. Adrian

6. rothko

7. The Polar Express

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About the Artist

Numinous is an unique orchestra of some New York City’s finest jazz and classical musicians, performing the music of Joseph C. Phillips Jr. Numinous has performed throughout New York City and the East Coast and features strings, various percussion, piano, bass, woodwind and brass instruments in a grouping some have called a ‘chamber jazz orchestra’.

Incorporating improvisation and formal composition, Mr. Phillips conducts the 14 member ensemble which performs throughout New York City music venues and clubs. Influenced by contemporary ‘classical’ composers as well as by jazz, rock, pop, and film composers, Mr. Phillips naturally fuses these styles into an exciting soundscape and a singularly unique and interesting musical vision.

One of Mr. Phillips’ goals as a composer can be summed up by a quote from John Coltrane. In the liner notes to Coltrane’s Sound, Coltrane says, "the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe." This great quote is a reminder and challenge for Mr. Phillips to strive to create profound and beautiful music. Music not necessarily or always in the classic sense of beauty, meaning pleasing sounds, but music whose intention is to express something meaningful and hopefully lasting. Responding to that challenge Mr. Phillips formed Numinous in the fall of 2000, with the idea to stretch and push his compositions in new and different ways toward that goal. Always with the hope and desire to emotionally and conceptually connect with, enlighten, and challenge listeners, and paraphrasing Johann Sebastian Bach’s title page to his Clavierübung, to stimulate and refresh the spirit.