About Peter McEachern

Trombone

Peter McEachern, a Connecticut native, has toured and recorded three CDs for Polygram with Blues legend Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown; has worked and recorded with minimalist composer Lamonte Young, and is featured on several important CDs: "Insomnia" with the Thomas Chapin Trio on Knitting Factory Works and "Song for Septet" with the Mario Pavone Septet on the New World Countercurrents label. Song for Septet was chosen as one of the "Top Ten Jazz CDs of 1995" by The New York Times. In addition he recorded the Wendy Chambers piece, "A Mass for Mass Trombones" on the Centaur label. He received a fellowship for music composition from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts in 2001. He is a member of The Ct Composing Improvisers Project which includes Stephen Haynes, Mario Pavone, and 2010 Grammy winner David Darling. The group has an unreleased recording. Currently he is the Chairman of the Music Department at Salisbury School, and is a busy freelance artist in the tri-state area. Peter has also been a teaching artist at the Litchfield Jazz Camp since 1998. His recent releases include "No Chordtet" featuring Dave Santoro, George Sovak and Hamir Atwal,”Shockwave" featuring the late Thomas Chapin, Steve Johns, Mario Pavone and Jamie Finegan, and No Chordet’s 2nd CD “Subconscious Love” on Truth Revolution Records. He is also a member of the New England Jazz Ensemble and has recorded 4 CDs with the group. The most recent is a Jazz version of Peter and the Wolf. In the Fall of 2018 his CD “Bone-Code” was released on the Clean Feed label based in Lisbon, Portugal. A new project “New Chordtet” featuring Mike DiRubbo, Jimin Park, Dave Santoro, and Tom Melito was released in November 2019 on Truth Revolution Records