Jazz Articles about Amanda Gardier

Amanda Gardier: Empathy

by Mike Jurkovic
July 26, 2018

With a clear sense of composition and where her own fluid voice, and those of her superb surrounding musicians, fall within the whole, Indiana-based alto saxophonist Amanda Gardier opens her debut disc, Empathy, on the multi-layered strengths of the palette-setting “Giants," an expansive piece that allows her plenty of time in the lead before gracefully stepping aside for a guitar-fuelled crescendo. Each of Gardier's ten originals on Empathy exemplifies her guiding principle to “turn the perceived notion of ...