Welcome to JCA Orchestra Home Page

Voting opens today, June 4, 2009. You will need to register your email address in order to vote, but it's easy and spam-free (promise!) and geography is not a problem--even if you aren't a Boston local, you can still lend your support! Many thanks to all the JCA supporters and to the Boston Phoenix!

The Jazz Composers' Alliance (JCA) was founded in 1985 to support, develop and promote the art of music composition in the jazz idiom. To do so, we founded the JCA Orchestra (and the JCA Sax Quartet) and have been putting on concerts for 24 years. We've put out seven CDs (and have just recorded another with blues legend Mike Finnigan), have premiered well over a hundred compositions (who knows, maybe double that) and have had an illustrious series of guest performers who have included Julius Hemphill, Henry Threadgill, Sam Rivers, Oliver Lake, Dave Holland, Steve Lacy, Maria Schneider and many others. The JCA Orchestra features some of Boston's best and most adventurous jazz musicians, including Jim Hobbs, Phil Scarff, Rebecca Shrimpton, David Harris, Hiro Honshuku, and Bill Lowe. Our concerts are creative, exciting, colorful and unique. Our focus ranges from through-composed extended works, to collective improvisation, world music, spoken word and improvisation, and anything else that may come along.

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