Jazz Articles about Chase Morrin

About Chase Morrin

Album Review

Giunto al suo secondo album, l'Ize Trio, autodefinitosi, programmaticamente, “un ensemble musicale multiculturale che si propone di fondere la forma d'arte americana del jazz con le tradizioni mediorientali," sembra in realtà muoversi soprattutto lungo la prima delle due dorsali, infiorettando il proprio discorso di influssi effettivamente provenienti dalla seconda specificatamente nel quarto brano, “Snaefellsjokull," stante l'aggiunta di strumenti in linea con questo universo sonoro. Per il resto anche l'ingresso di Patitucci e Haruvi nell'ampio “From the Stars," pur ...

Radio & Podcasts

Chase Morrin: Jazz pianist, composer, educator & bandleader of Ize Trio

by Doug Hall
February 15, 2025

On this show we chat with Boston-based jazz pianist and composer Chase Morrin. Morrin has released multiple albums and been internationally recognized as a musician who pushes musical boundaries in jazz and classical music. His current band Ize Trio is an innovative multi-cultural project(among others) that advocates for human rights and equity. Ize Trio's current release is The Global Suites (Chase Morrin Music, 2024). We will listen to snippets of two compositions from this recording.He is currently a ...

Album Review

Carl Clements: A Different Light

Read "A Different Light" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 29, 2024

Sunlight beaming into a church through a stained-glass window is a different light--tinted and soft-hued, suggestive of the presence of divinity. Saxophonist Carl Clements' quartet outing, A Different Light, gives the same impression. Looking to the album's stained glass-like cover art, artist Amanda Barrow's visual for the album seems a fine fit for this distinctive, modern jazz quartet. The painting's colors are mostly muted, with two overlapping spheres (Neptune and Uranus? Or gas giants from another solar system?) in eclipse, ...