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Jan 13, 2021 · Billy Novick is internationally recognized as a musician, performer, arranger and composer. He has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and has made spotlight appearances at numerous festivals, including the Kool, Newport, Edinburgh, Brecon (Wales), Marsiac (France), and Breda (Netherlands) jazz festivals, as well as ...
An accomplished, entertaining saxophonist composer whose music has extended far beyond jazz. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1970s - 1990s. Born. October 12, 1951 in Long Island, NY. Genre. Jazz, Blues, International. Styles. Celtic, Folk Jazz, Irish Folk, New Orleans Jazz, Swing, Trad Jazz. Member Of. Articles. Staff Picks.
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By 16, he was getting paid to play clarinet, in a Blood, Sweat & Tears-type band at proms on Long Island. After dropping out of college, he moved to Boston, attended Berklee for a year, met some musicians and fell into the local ’70s music scene. He worked in various blues and R&B bands, fronted his own avant-garde jazz trio, joined the David Bromb...
But along with playing, Novick, a longtime Lexington, Massachusetts, resident, has also done loads of composing and arranging. “When I was a kid I wanted to be a composer even more than a musician,” he said recently. “It was something about the grandness and permanence of it that appealed to me.” He wrote and arranged both fusion and straight-ahead...
Novick worked with the same people on a ballet of “The Sun Also Rises,” which premiered in May 2013. He still finds time to play, regularly appearing with a couple of duos and trios, and with the New Black Eagles, Guy Van Duser and his newest group, The Blue Syncopators, who perform music from ballets. In rare spare moments, he continues to be a st...
Billy Novick has been involved in filmscoring since the early 1980's. He has been featured as a composer, arranger, orchestrator and studio musician on more than 150 films and television shows, along with dozens of commercials .
Sep 27, 2022 · Billy Novick (left) and Guy Van Duser Beth Christensen. It’s always been all about the music for Guy Van Duser and Billy Novick. Their love of it — with an emphasis on swing — is what’s...
Jan 10, 2023 · Though they were both very active members of the Boston music scene in the early 1970s, acoustic guitarist Guy Van Duser and reed man Billy Novick hadn’t worked together – hadn’t even met – before fate took care of things on a September night in 1975.
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