G. F. Mlely
MUSIC
AND MUSIC THEATER &
CABARET ACTIVITY
G. F. Mlely is
an
internationally
acclaimed pianist and composer. His
previous music theater stage work, And All That
Jazz (originally Cocktail Lounge), ran four months in San
Francisco.
After that, concentrating strictly on music, he performed as a featured
soloist
in a variety of venues, including those on tour in Europe.
His current activity includes VENICE,
a
2-act musical which received its first cast reading and is heading
for a staged workshop in Los Angeles. Mlely is now at work on
rewriting the book of another musical, LIFE
DEATH
& JAZZ, a theatrical cabaret piece for which he's nearly
completed the music.
"Threnody,"
a 7-minute instrumental track from his Re-Entry
CD, released on JazCraft (JzC101), was featured in the New York
non-dialogue theatrical production, How The Cookie
Crumbles, produced by The Xoregos Performing Company, running 18
performances at The Common Basis Theater in New York, and for an
unaccounted
number of performances outside that city.
His original choral compositions have premiered in Hawai’i and in Los
Angeles. His video series, Jazz
Piano with G. F. Mlely, was 2 years in re-runs on Olelo
Television
of Hawai’i.
Songs from his catalogue have been produced and recorded by
Freddie Hubbard, George Harrison, (guitarist) John Tesh, Phil Perry,
The Cunninghams, the latter on a Grammy nominated album.
Mlely writes essays on the art,
craft, and politics of jazz and songwriting, some published online by
JazCraft.net, as well as a full length book, New Music
And American Christendom - A Critique.
"G.
F. Mlely is a talent of distinction with unique vision and an artistic
voice of his own. But, then, it is not so much talent as genius." William Rocker, Director JazCraft
G. F. Mlely is the subject of
numerous articles, reviews, and profiles.
•
For
more in-depth
"G. F. Mlely"
|
|
 |
