# Owen Broder wins Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/03/14/owen-broder-wins-herb-alpert-young-jazz-composer-award-video/
- Published: 2018-03-14T10:00:52+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Saxophonist/composer Owen Broder was named one of the fifteen recipients of the
2018 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. **

The program was established in 2002 to encourage young gifted jazz composers up 
to the age of 30 and carries the name of trumpeter and ASCAP member Herb Alpert 
in recognition of The Herb Alpert Foundation’s multi-year financial commitment to
the initiative. (For a full list of 2018 Herb Alpert Young jazz Composer Awards 
winner.

Broder won the award for his composition “Goin’ Up Home,” which opens _Heritage_,
the debut album of his all-star American Roots Project, out on March 1 on ArtistShare.
A press release states: “The recording offers a stunning new vision of American 
roots music – from Appalachian folk to early blues, spirituals to bluegrass – through
bold and inspired new interpretations envisioned through a modern jazz lens.”

_Heritage_ features contributions from many talented musicians, including pianists
Jim McNeely and Miho Hazama, composer Bill Holman, trumpeter Alphonso Horne. Broder
and the band will celebrate the album at the Jazz Standard in New York City, New
York, on March 14.

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