New World Jazz Composers Octet, “Without a Paddle“

The widely acclaimed New World Jazz Composers Octet has been together for the past 12 years. The band has released three CDs, which have been highly praised in Jazz Times, DownBeat, Cadence Magazine, , and many other international publications. They came to the Berklee Performance Center on March 10, 2014. The band was founded and is led by saxophonist and Berklee associate professor Daniel Ian Smith and features Tim Ray, Felipe Salles, Walter Platt, Tony D’Aveni, Ernesto Diaz, Keala Kaumeh