Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra - Final Days

Written in the winter of 2016-2017 during Marcus's last visit to the home where he’d grown up in New Jersey and where his father had passed away a few months earlier. Marcus wrote one of the main themes while going to bed one night during this visit and thinking about how it would be his last time being there and the end of his family’s time there after so many years. Other sections were added later to try to capture the winter wind blowing over snow on the yard and shadows of trees falling on the family home of 40 years. Final Days is part of the 2022 album In the Valley by the Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra on Stricker Street Records. In The Valley was made possible with support from Chamber Music America's 2016 New Jazz Works program funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Major thanks go to them for making this project possible! Filmed May 11, 2022 by Andrew Bohman Recording at Keystone Korner Baltimore featuring: Todd Marcus – bass clarinet Marcus Strickland – tenor sax Brent Birckhead – flute & alto sax Russell Kirk – alto sax Alex Norris – trumpet Alan Ferber - trombone Xavier Davis – piano Jeff Reed - bass Eric Kennedy – drums Learn more at: http://toddmarcusjazz.com/ Todd Marcus performs on the a signature mouthpiece by Syos - learn more at: www.syos.co/shop/clarinet/signature/todd-marcus-bass