Click below to buy VERY STRANGE NIGHT at CD Baby or iTunesALL THE SONGS that you're listening to on the PLAYLIST are composed, arranged, orchestrated, and conducted by SAMSON TRINH except noted. Here's the personnel from the PLAYLIST:"TO YOU, NEAR YOU, WITH YOU" - Terri Simpson (vocals); The Lounge Union Strings, Winds, & Percussion"SIGNS ARE FULL OF JIVE" - Adrian Duke (vocals/piano/organ); Upper East Side Big Band"SANFORD & SON THEME" (by Quincy Jones) - Jay Calabro (electric bass); Lance Koehler (drums/percussion); Karl Morse (electric guitar); Marcus Tenney (trumpet); Samson Trinh (tenor sax)"VERY STRANGE NIGHT" - Upper East Side Big Band"I WON" - Lead Singer's Name Who I Forgot (vocals); Will Gorman (background voices); Rob Quallich, Marcus Tenney (trumpets); Reggie Pace, Stefan Demetriadis (trombones); Karl Morse (guitar); Jay Calabro (bass); Aaron Thompson (drums); Samson Trinh (conductor, piano, tenor sax, tamborine)"TIME AFTER TIME" (by Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne/arr. Samson Trinh) - Upper East Side Big BandBIOGRAPHY
At 24 years of age, Samson Trinh's debut album, Very Strange Night displays his talents as writer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator, bandleader, producer, and conductor! It also features Richmond, VA's finest musicians such as vocalists Terri Murphy, Adrian Duke, and Jackie Frost; trumpeter Rex Richardson; pianist Skip Gailes; and members of Agents of Good Roots, Bio Ritmo, Devils Workshop, Fighting Gravity, and Modern Groove Syndicate!
In 1999, he attended the Berklee College of Music's Summer Program with a Music Scholarship. Samson has also received several Merit Scholarships from Virginia Commonwealth University where he has earned his B.M. in Jazz Studies. At VCU, Samson studied composition and jazz arranging privately with Doug Richards (founder and director of G.A.M.E.) and saxophone with Skip Gailes, John Winn, and principal New York Philharmonic saxophonist, Albert Regni. He is the winner of the 2005 Richmond Jazz Society's prestigious Joe Kennedy, Jr. Scholarship and was an alumnus at New York's Manhattan School of Music studying Jazz Composition with well-known composer, Michael Abene (Associate Music Director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop).Samson has composed, performed, collaborated and/or recorded with/for The Temptations, Al Jarreau, Nellie McKay, Fighting Gravity, Carlos Chafin (In Your Ear Studios), Robbin Thompson, Desiree Roots, Plunky Branch, Mulgrew Miller, Rudy Faulkner & F.R.E.N.S., John Winn, James "Saxsmo" Gates, the Richmond Jazz Society's Make Music with Me Band, VCU Jazz Orchestra I, and members of the Richmond Symphony.Adrian Duke Projek
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Music video featuring a live performance of The Adrian Duke Projek at Minimum Wage Studios. The song is Duke's "Just The Man" with horn arrangements by me. Shot by David Hellman and edited by Todd Raviotta.
