EUGENE MARLOW
Genres: World Fusion, Hard Bop, Third Stream, Post Bop, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Latin Jazz • United States

Dr. Marlow’s jazz compositions include charts for big band in various genres, plus ballads, swing tunes, blues, and Latin-jazz flavored compositions for small ensembles. He has also arranged numerous Hebraic melodies in various jazz, Afro-Caribbean, Brazilian, and classical styles. The quality of Marlow’s compositions was evident from his first album–“A Summer Afternoon With You” (MEII Enterprises 2005). Journalist Len Dobbin, writing in the Montreal Mirror in 2006, put Marlow in the same category as Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider, calling both “Two composers of the first rank. . . .Both are 10/10.” Overall, in addition to the jazz (and classical) compositions and arrangements that appear on his 19 indie produced albums (MEII Enterprises), his compositions appear on eight other albums produced by other labels. For example, three of his big charts appear on Grammy-nominated albums: Marlow’s big band chart “El Aché de Sanabria (en Moderacion)” appears on Bobby Sanabria’s 2007 Grammy-nominated album “Big Band read more...