Green Octopus Band - a brand new ensemble.
Why "Green Octopus Band?"....
Basically, around the time I had the idea of putting an ensemble together, I was walking my then 7-year-old son to school. I asked him, “If I had a band, what should it be called?” Without missing a beat, he replied, “Green Octopus Band.” I thought, that’s rather good, especially since I had expected something more along the lines of “Pooh-Pooh-Fart Band” from a 7-year-old boy.
A few years later, I asked if he remembered coming up with that name, and he said, “Yes. I was trying to come up with something like the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine.” That decided it; if my young son was referencing the Beatles, that was good enough for me.
Band line-up
The instrumentation has evolved into its current lineup as the writing project shifted from an initial intention to create companion pieces to Glassworks by Philip Glass, to a broader desire to write music that is fun to play and, hopefully, enjoyable to listen to. The line-up now consists of two saxophones, string quartet, piano, keyboard, bass and drum-kit/percussion.