Triumvirate (Live)
My composition for the 2022 Ravinia Steans Music Institute Jazz Grandstand in Highland Park, IL, which I participated in as a fellow of RSMI’s Program for Jazz. This performance features myself alongside fellows Hannah Duhon (trombone), Sam Chandler (piano), Sameer Shankar (bass) and Josiah DeNooyer (drums).
Thom Avella: A Graduate Recital
This recital took place in April 2022, and was the capstone of my graduate studies at William Paterson University. It features compositions I arranged for octet and big band by composers including myself, Thelonious Monk, Cole Porter, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Randy Brecker and Mark Hollis.
Children’s Songs (Corea/Rubio)
This is a suite of six of Chick Corea’s Children’s Songs arranged by Douglas and Jill Rubio, performed by myself on soprano saxophone and Julian Eichholz on guitar. The recording is taken from my senior saxophone recital at the Crane School of Music in April 2019.