RECORDINGS
Launch Control
Mark Lipson
Detroit Composers Collective
Launch Control is percussionist Mark Lipson’s fifth release on the DCC Record label. This recording features his compositions as well as those of Detroit's Vincent Chandler, Michael Jellick, and Brad Felt.
The album is titled after the Brad Felt’s blues composition, “Launch Control.” Personnel; Vincent Chandler - trombone, John Douglas - trumpet and flugelhorn, Ian Finkelstein - piano, Michael Jellick - piano, Jesse Kramer - drums, Rafael Leafar - tenor and soprano saxophones, Mark Lipson - percussion, Alberto Nacif - congas, Jeff Pedraz - bass
Springwells
Mark Lipson
Detroit Composers Collective
This Detroit Composers Collective recording consists of original compositions by Vincent Chandler, Brad Felt, and Rafael Statin. The title-track, Springwells, is an Afro-Cuban composition written by the virtuosic Detroit trombonist, Vincent Chandler.
released May 6, 2022
Musicians: Vincent Chandler on trombone, Larry Fratangelo and Mark Lipson on percussion, Cary Kocher on vibraphone, Jeff Pedraz on bass, Gary Schunk on piano, Rafael Statin on woodwinds and piano, Nate Winn on drums.
REALISM
DETROIT COMPOSERS’ COLLECTIVE
The Music of Ken Cox, Brad Felt and Mark Lipson
The official DCC debut project, this recording features compositions by two of Detroit’s late greats, Kenn Cox and Brad Felt, as well as compositions by DCC founder Mark Lipson. It was recorded in two sessions. The first featured a quintet with Cliff Monear on piano, Miles Brown on upright bass, Dwight Adams on trumpet, Andrew Bishop on tenor saxophone and Jesse Kramer on drums. The second was recorded by a septet featuring Michael Malis on keyboards, Jeff Pedraz on upright bass, Dwight Adams on trumpet and flugelhorn, Terry Kimura on trombone, Rafael Statin on tenor saxophone and flute, Pepe Espinosa on Latin percussion and Sean Dobbins on drums.
Point of Arrival
Mark Lipson
with Jack Dryden, Gary Schunk, Tom Starr, Larry Fratangelo, John Wojciechowski, Rayse Biggs
About Mark Lipson
composer, percussionist, EDUCATOR, PRODUCER
Mark Lipson has proved himself an integral member of the Detroit jazz community, performing with three generations of musicians over five decades. An accomplished drummer, composer, arranger, and producer, his early teachers have included Marcus Belgrave, Harold McKinney, Marv “Doc” Holiday, and Rob Pipho. He later studied music theory, arranging, and composition with Chris Collins, Matthew Schoendorff, and Jon Anderson at Wayne State University.
Initially a self-taught drummer, Mark began working professionally at the age of 14, performing with R and B, and cover groups, extensively in and around Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan. A partial list of these venues includes the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival, Ann Arbor Jazz and Blues Festival, Cliff Bell’s, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge, The Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe, and innumerable neighborhood clubs. In 1973, Mark received a grant from National Endowment for the Arts, which enabled him to study percussion with Warren Smith and Barry Altschul in NYC. In his musical travels, Mark has been privileged to share the bandstand with Dizzy Gillespie, Dwight Adams, Robert Hurst, and Wendell Harrison, among many others. Mark views music as a healing art, whose purpose is to cross boundaries and bring people together in peace and harmony. He currently lives with his wife, Susan, in West Bloomfield, MIchigan where he continues to study, compose, and produce music in his home studio.
Articles by Mark Lipson
Brazen Notes, Gilded Moments, (about Gamelan ensemble in Ann Arbor, Michigan) Monthly Detroit, Feb. 1983
Tenor On A Grand Scale, (about Detroit operatic singer, Barry Alexander), Monthly Detroit, Nov. 1982
Thirty Years of Dancin' (about Detroit tap dancer, Flash Beaver) Monthly Detroit, Oct. 1981
In 2015, Detroit Composers’ Collective (DCC) was created to be a living preservation of the work of some of Detroit’s many great jazz musicians and composers.
The seeds of the project were planted after DCC founder, Mark Lipson, was granted permission to arrange, publish and produce the works of two late Detroit composers – Brad Felt and Kenn Cox. Lipson, a drummer and composer in his own right, was an admirer of Cox.
VIDEOS
Mark Lipson Quartet recorded August 28, 2020 at my home in West Bloomfield, MI - “Recorda Me”, by Joe Henderson featuring Sasha Kashperko - guitar, Michael Malis - keyboards, Jonathan Muir-Cotton - bass, Mark Lipson - Drums
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