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The Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra (AIJO) is a full big band based in Boston that has recently performed with Bob Brookmeyer, George Garzone, Joe Lovano and Frank Tiberi at venues such as the Berklee Performance Center, The Zeitgeist Gallery and the Western Front Club. The ensemble performs originals and arrangements of Ayn Inserto, who is highly influenced by Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider and Jim McNeely. The jazz orchestra recently finished a recording with Bob Brookmeyer and George Garzone. Ms. Inserto thrives to make her music swing with a modern twist and her orchestra will not fail to produce a thrilling performance.
Biography
Ayn Inserto is a groundbreaking composer who is emerging as one of the preeminent voices of her generation. She received her Masters of Music degree in Jazz Composition from the New England Conservatory in May 2001. She is a winner of the 2003 and 2006 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers' Award and has received various honors which include the Concord Pavilion Associates Marian McPartland Award, the Pacific Coast Jazz Festival Most Outstanding small jazz ensemble, and the 1999 Best Original Composition award at the Billy Higgins Jazz Festival. She currently studies jazz composition with Bob Brookmeyer as his protege. Her music has been performed at the Berklee Performance Center, 1999 & 2008 IAJE Convention, California State University of Hayward Jazz Festivals, Reno Jazz Festival, Billy Higgins Jazz Festival, New England Conservatory of Music, McGill University, Montreux Jazz Festival and the Umbria Jazz Festival. Ayn has been commissioned by Foxboro High School, Harvard Jazz Band, CSU East Bay, IAJE/ASCAP, Marin Catholic High School and Fairfield High School, and by George Garzone to arrange his music featuring him as a soloist with jazz orchestra. She currently resides in Boston, is on the faculty at Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music and teaches private piano in the Massachusetts area.
Her CD "Clairvoyance" is available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/ayninserto
Jazz Times CD Review, September 2007
"There’s an energetic creative force on the horizon named Ayn Inserto, and based on this debut album, she’s Maria Schneider on steroids. Boston-based Inserto, an assistant professor at Berklee, arranged all nine tracks and composed six. George Garzone, who is a guest tenorist, wrote the remaining three. The other guest soloist is trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, who happens to be Inserto’s mentor. That connection alone gives credence to the album. What you’ll hear may be confusing. In Inserto’s contemporary mindset, there seems little need for bar lines or, in many instances, tonal centers. Her strength is in creating dense colors and textures, as on “Clairvoyance.†Sticking with a conventional, 17-piece band, she devises huge, avant-garde canvases filled with clusters (she loves minor seconds). Brookmeyer is laid-back, never deviating from his sophisticated tones, creating a fascinating contrast to Inserto’s dissonant backing, particularly on “Shadow Dancing.†Garzone, on the other hand, tends to become as anarchic as the band, as on “Hey, Open Up.†Pianist Kyle Aho takes a very poetic solo on “Early Sunday Morning,†and there is outstanding rhythmic support from bassist Jeremy Allen and drummer Richie Barshay on 'Lazy Saturday Afternoon.'" - Harvey Siders
NEWS: Ayn Inserto is the winner of the 2007 ASCAP/IAJE Commission in the emerging jazz composer category. She will have a piece premiered at the 2008 IAJE Conference. More details to follow.
