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Rachel Therrien
A highly active musician and creator, Rachel Therrien released Mi Hogar II with her Latin Jazz Project, set to be released March 7 2025 with Lulaworld records.
Trumpeter, composer and producer, Rachel Therrien has built a reputation as an internationally acclaimed artist, standing out for her versatility and unique instinct for musical innovation. Nominated at ADISQ with the albums Mi Hogar and VENA, at the JUNOs with her fifth album VENA (four stars from Downbeat), and at the GRAMMYs with Virtual Birdland by the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Rachel is a renowned musician.
What is the Latin Jazz Project?
Trumpeter Rachel Therrien stands out as one of the most innovative voices at the intersection of jazz and world music. Her Latin Jazz Project is the result of her advanced studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, her extensive musical experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean, and twenty years of collaboration with the Latin jazz community in Montreal, New York, and Toronto.
For her latest album, Mi Hogar II (released on March 7, 2025), she collaborates with OKAN, John Benitez and Mireya Ramos, among others, to refine the unique fusion she offers between jazz and Latin music.
Leading this exceptional ensemble, she presents a sophisticated repertoire blending original compositions with reinterpretations of great Afro-Latin jazz classics. From salsa to danzón, from rumba to cha-cha-cha, Rachel and her virtuoso bandmates take you on a captivating rhythmic journey infused with influences from Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, and Haiti, among others.
Her forthcoming album, Mi Hogar II, 8th album by Therrien is set for release on March 7, 2025, under continues her exploration of Latin jazz, building upon the foundation laid in her 2023 release, Mi Hogar. The title, translating to "My Home", reflects Therrien's deep connection to her musical community and the diverse influences that have shaped her sound.
Awards
Nominated at ADISQ with the albums Mi Hogar and VENA, at the JUNOs with her fifth album VENA (four stars from Downbeat), and at the GRAMMYs with Virtual Birdland by the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Rachel is a renowned musician.
Gear
Rachel Therrien is a Schilke Artist.
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Rachel Therrien: Mi Hogar II
by Richard J Salvucci
Rachel Therrien is a Canadian composer and trumpet player who has been around for some time, though her name may be unfamiliar. Therrien's musical journey has taken her from Rimouski, Quebec to Havana, Cuba via New York City and Colombia. Her Latin Jazz Project is nothing if not arresting, and probably merits a name like avant-garde Latin jazz, although labels inevitably just confuse matters. Listen very carefully, because if Jerry Gonzalez, Freddie Hubbard and Chicago all seem to stroll through ...
Continue ReadingRachel Therrien, Rodney Jordan, Diane Marino, Rodney Whitaker and more
by Benjamin Boddie
Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Rachel Therrien, Dr. Purgatory, Rodney Jordan, Diane Marino, Ross Valory, Rodney Whitaker, Max Leake, The Reddish Fetish, Tomas Martin Lopez, Willie Morris, Steve Smith, Yellowjackets, Jeremy Pelt, Ryan Middagh, Nick Hempton & Cory Weeds, Posi-Tone Swingtet, Fernando Ferrarone, Jenna McLean, Artemis, Kasan Belgrave, Michelle Nicolle, Mafalda Minnozzi, MTB, and more. Playlist Rachel Therrien “Soucy" from Mi Hogar ll (Lula World) 00:00 Dr. Purgatory “Creature (Graiae The One-Eyed Orphan)" from The Consumption: A ...
Continue ReadingJacob Wutzke: You Better Bet
by Jack Bowers
Jacob Wutzke, long an admirer of fellow drummer and composer Tony Williams, moved closer to Williams' orbit several years ago when acclaimed bassist Ira Coleman--who had performed and recorded with Williams in the 1980s and '90s-- relocated to Wutzke's home base in Montreal, Canada. After meeting Coleman, Wutzke proposed the idea of recording an album of Williams' music, to which Coleman replied that not only was he down with that but had in his possession Williams' entire repertoire including dozens ...
Continue ReadingArturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley
by Angelo Leonardi
Scoperto da Carla Bley nel 1979, quand'era ancora studente diciannovenne, e rimasto nei suoi gruppi per tre anni, Arturo O'Farrill ne celebra la memoria con quest'album ambizioso, che raccoglie due sue suites ed una ("Blue Palestine") che lui stesso commissionò alla grande autrice e bandleader nel 2019, quattro anni prima della sua morte. “Mundoagua" la composizione che apre il disco è stata scritta per commemorare l'Anno dell'acqua ed ha avuto la sua anteprima al Miller Theater di New ...
Continue ReadingArturo O'Farrill: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley
by Jack Bowers
Mundoagua, the latest album by composer and pianist Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, is subdivided into three suites, the second of which is the four-movement “Blue Palestine," written and arranged by another celebrated composer and pianist, Carla Bley, a leading light in the avant-garde free jazz movement of the mid-twentieth century, who died of cancer in October 2023. The opening suite, “Mundoagua," commissioned by the Columbia University School of the Arts in 2018 to commemorate the ...
Continue ReadingDiva Jazz Orchestra: "30": Live at Dizzy's Club
by Jack Bowers
The “30" in the title of the superlative all-woman Diva Jazz Orchestra's latest album stands for 30 years, which, believe it or not, is how long the orchestra and its remarkable drummer and leader, Sherrie Maricle, have been up and running and making beautiful music at home and abroad. Among U.S.-based big bands, it would seem that only Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Woody Herman have had longer runs than that. Fast company indeed. So is Diva ready for comparisons? ...
Continue ReadingThe DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Swings Broadway
by Jack Bowers
At the ripe old age of thirty (closer to a hundred in big-band years), the superlative New York-based, all-female DIVA Jazz Orchestra remains as frisky as a newborn colt, swinging up, down and around Broadway with abandon on its thirteenth album, a brisk and colorful tribute to the Great White Way that shines brightly from start to finish. The album opens and closes in a mid-1950s vein, raising the curtain with Steven Feifke's breezy, well-grooved arrangement of ...
Continue Reading Mi Hogar is a first hand presentation of multicultural music as one could hope for and throughout the seven tracks.
- Kira Grunenberg, Downbeat
Of all the albums that the trumpet and flugelhorn player Rachel Therrien has released so far, Mi Hogar is the most fiery and intense.
- Raul Da Gama, Latin Jazz Net
LE SOUFFLE INDÉPENDANT: L’allumée trompettiste Rachel Therrien en mal d’émotions neuves entretient ses velléités afro-jazz latin.
Primary Instrument
Trumpet
Location
Montreal
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
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Fiestas Campesinas
From: Mi Hogar IIBy Rachel Therrien
Blue Palestine Part Two
From: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla...By Rachel Therrien
Chiki
From: People of EarthBy Rachel Therrien
Last Inspiration
From: Home InspirationBy Rachel Therrien
