(Chinen) Robert Hurst Quartet (Tuesday and Wednesday) The bassist Robert Hurst has long been a fine small-group composer, as well as an underappreciated bandleader.
(Nate Chinen) GREGG AUGUST (Tuesday) Mr. August, a highly capable bassist, has also proved himself a sensible small-group composer in the Cedar Walton vein.
It isn't that Mr. Shorter, probably jazz's greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living improviser, shouldn't be going outside his territory; the lessons of 20th-century classical music have become inseparable from his composing.
GREGG AUGUST SEXTET (Thursday) With "Late August" (Iacuessa), Mr. August, a bassist, proves himself a sensible small-group composer in the Cedar Walton vein; his band includes the trumpeter John Bailey and the drummer E.J. Strickland.
7 30 and 9 30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen) ROBERT HURST GROUP (Tonight and tomorrow night) Mr. Hurst, a bassist with a deep and earthy tone, has long been a resourceful small-group composer, as well as an underappreciated bandleader.
New Jersey's institute, by contrast, was publicized on the Internet for only a few months, and the response was a lot smaller: 10 composers, 37 conductors.
It is studiously attentive to jazz of the last 40 years, specifically, a line of small-group composers like Paul Bley, Ornette Coleman, Andrew Hill and Marty Ehrlich, all of whom have written fairly romantic music while experimenting with rhythm and harmony.
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In the early twentieth century, imperial conductors had commanded a repertoire that was often limited to a small coterie of composers, and they frequently asked orchestra players to rehearse the same piece dozens of times.
