Mike Holober & Balancing Act:
DON’T LET GO
Record Release (Sunnyside Records)

Featuring: Jamile (voice), Marvin Stamm (trumpet), Dick Oatts (reeds), Jason Rigby (reeds), Mark Patterson (trombone), Mike Holober (piano/composer), Mike McGuirk (bass), Dennis Mackrel (drums)

“Don’t Let Go” is a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commission (funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation) for jazz octet with voice. Structured as a song-cycle in the tradition of Robert Schumann, Samuel Barber, and Ralph Vaughn-Williams, this concert-length project explores the nuances and complexities of the concept of “hope” in the context of current social, political, and environmental realities.