“Overwhelming beauty” -New York Times

“Radiant, uncluttered beauty” -San Francisco Chronicle

Grammy Nominated Jazz Orchestra Tracks:

STRATA / Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows / Link to Score Strata is nominated for a 2021 Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition.

HONEYMOONERS / Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows / Link to Score Honeymooners is nominated for a 2021 Grammy for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella.

SECONDHAND SMILE (mixes)

Here are a handful of the 9 tracks that will be on the next album. The approximate album length will be 58 minutes. Note that I am still editing some of these.

BIO

Remy Le Boeuf is a Grammy-nominated composer and saxophonist whose music is rooted in the jazz tradition and overlaps into the contemporary classical realm, drawing on various influences from Aaron Copland to Charles Mingus. Le Boeuf is also the founder and director of the Assembly of Shadows jazz orchestra.  He 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 identical 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. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for its “radiant, uncluttered beauty,” Le Boeuf’s prior release, Light as a Word (2019), features a sextet 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. Past Le Boeuf Brothers projects include House Without A Door (2009), In Praise of Shadows (2011), and Remixed (2013).

Le Boeuf has received 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, Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation, New York Youth Symphony, University of Denver, Keio University, BMI, and the ASCAP Foundation.

Le Boeuf holds bachelor's and master's degrees in saxophone performance from the Manhattan School of Music. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he teaches at the Manhattan School of Music as a saxophone and composition instructor in the Precollege and MSM Summer programs. Le Boeuf is also an adjunct professor of jazz composition at the University of South Florida.

PRESS

JazzTimes Feature | Remy Le Boeuf: The Shadows Know (2020)

Downbeat Magazine | Remy Le Boeuf Crafts Complex Musical Landscapes (2020)

The New Yorker | Twins’ Cross-Genre Experiment (Goings On About Town full page photo)

The New Yorker | Speaking the Language of Jazz with the Le Boeuf Brothers (2016)

Complete CV (PDF Download)

Complete Bio (PDF Download)

VIDEOS

PHOTOS