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Peter McEachern 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 “Insomnia” with the Thomas Chapin Trio on Knitting Factory Works. McEachern played on Pavone’s acclaimed “Song for Septet” as well as 5 CD’s by Pavone including “Vertical”, Pavone’s 2017 release with Tony Malaby, Dave Ballou Oscar Noriega and Michael Sarin on Clean Feed Records.  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. He is a member of The CT Composing Improvisers Project, which includes Stephen Haynes, Mario Pavone, and 2010 Grammy winner David Darling.

McEachern performed with various ensembles curated by the Creative Musicians Improvisers Forum (CMIF) with such luminaries as Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Marty Ehrlich, Andrew Cyrille, Gerry Hemingway, and Ray Anderson.

He has released several CD’s recently:

“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 has a new release coming out this year on Truth Revolution called “New Chordtet”, featuring Mike DiRubbo and Jimin Park. He is also a member of the New England Jazz Ensemble and has recorded 4 CD’s with the group. The most recent is a Jazz version of “Peter and the Wolf” with Giacamo Gates. His latest CD, “Bone Code” (2018) featuring Michael Sarin and Mario Pavone is on the Clean Feed label.

Peter has been a teaching artist at the Litchfield Jazz Camp since 1998.