A multi-genre New Music ensemble combining jazz, rock, various world music idioms, country, spaghetti western and other film music genres, 1950’s easy listening to various 20th Century Classical and “Avant-garde” styles with wit and humor. The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra fuses these sounds so that the result is something between a pop song, film score, jazz improvisation, cartoon soundtrack and an orchestral suite.

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Bio

• Who?

The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra (ptsCO) was formed by Paul Minotto in 2000 to create and perform multi-genre, new music which cannot be defined by any stylistic label or category. Members of the group come from a variety of musical backgrounds including jazz, classical, pop, country and world music. In addition to the strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion, the 5th section of ptsCO is comprised of computers which balance the sound and add another dimension of extra musical ideas. Often electric guitars, synthesizers and other electronic instruments are used as well.


• What?

PtsCO combines many different styles of music with wit and humor. From the most popular mainstream genres such as rock or country music to the less popular styles like Free Jazz or “Avant-Garde” sounds, any and every genre and style of music is an option for their amusing explorations. And sometimes nonmusical sounds can be heard as well, like a Ginsu knife commercial under water, farm animals, garbage trucks or other fragments of popular culture.


• Yes, but What Kind Of Music Is It?

Any piece of music might contain a mix of Contemporary Jazz, 60’s Rock, Chinese Folk, Polynesian percussion, country music, Spaghetti Western and other film music styles, Muzak, east Indian, Hip-hop to various 20th Century classical styles, 60’s R&B, “Avant-Garde”, Bossa Nova and various Latin American rhythms, Surf guitar music to whatever. Not taking themselves too seriously, ptsCO f