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Jenny Hill: Floating
by Dan McClenaghan
Jenny Hill is joined by her group Liquid Horn on Floating. The musical mix includes straight-ahead jazz, Brazilian and world music grooves, plus what Hill calls “a splash of funky Brooklyn." Hill is a master multi-reedist, employing her tenor saxophone, flute and soprano sax here. Liquid Horn adds the piano-bass-and-drums rhythm section with Allison Philips joining the leader in the front line, playing trumpet and flugelhorn. The title track opens the album. Hill is on the ...
Continue ReadingThe NYChillharmonic: Mean
by Mike Jurkovic
Having toured across five continents, you have to figure that no matter what musical element dares to share physical space within Brooklyn keyboard/vocalist Sara McDonald's brain-bending flight path, it is going to be grabbed by the scruff of the neck and turned it into something forceful. Something fierce. Something startlingly her own. Leader of the eighteen piece, (sometimes twenty, sometimes more or less), orchestral-punk-prog-jazz-rock the NYChillharmonic, McDonald unveils the utterly invigorating “Mean," a churning, sawing, simmering shard of ...
Continue ReadingAllison Philips Trio: Allison Philips Trio
by Karl Ackermann
Straddling her residencies between New York City and Amsterdam, trumpeter Allison Philips has been performing since age fourteen, eventually landing at venues that have included Le Poisson Rouge, Iridium, and The Jazz Standard. Leading a quartet, she played the 2014 Bern Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Philips has a BFA in Jazz Performance from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and is working toward Masters in Jazz Performance at The Conservatorium Van Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. Her debut album, ...
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