Jazz Articles about Christine Jensen

About Christine Jensen

Album Review

Ingrid and Christine Jensen: Infinitude

Read "Infinitude" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
January 20, 2017

While they've often recorded together over the years--from the collective Nordic Connect quintet and trumpeter Ingrid Jensen's early albums including Now as Then (Justin Time, 2003), to many of saxophonist Christine's recordings, from her two much-lauded Jazz Orchestra albums (most recently Habitat (Justin Time, 2014)) to earlier, small group dates including Look Left (Effendi, 2006)--the two Jensen sisters (separated by four years) have never recorded an album collaboratively, with both names sharing the marquee equally...until now. While sharing has never ...

Album Review

Christine Jensen: Infinitude

Read "Infinitude" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
October 31, 2016

On paper and with this line-up you might be forgiven for regarding this as a new version of the Brecker Brothers with the two West Canadian Ingrid Jensen and Montreal-based sister Christine taking the roles respectively of Randy Brecker and the sorely missed Michael. But this would be a mistake. The Jensens have carved out their own distinct sound and having worked in big band and smaller ensembles with such luminaries as Clark Terry, Maria Schneider and Terri Lyne Carrington, ...

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Christine Jensen, Maggi Olin: Transatlantic Conversations: 11 Piece Band Live

Read "Transatlantic Conversations: 11 Piece Band Live" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
October 26, 2016

La sassofonista Christine Jensen, sorella della nota trombettista Ingrid, condivide con la pianista svedese Maggi Olin la guida di questo progetto orchestrale comprendente dieci strumentisti, più la cantante Sofie Norling. La registrazione è stata effettuata live al Palladiun di Malmö, in Svezia nel dicembre 2013 ed è uscita tardivamente alla fine dello scorso anno. Il disco è un'ulteriore testimonianza del nuovo interesse orchestrale nel jazz di questi anni. Maggi e Christine sono alla prima esperienza come bandleader ma il loro ...

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Christine Jensen/Maggi Olin: Transatlantic Conversations: 11 Piece Band Live

Read "Transatlantic Conversations: 11 Piece Band Live" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 14, 2016

The engaging and inventive Transatlantic Conversations: 11 Piece Band is the result of a remarkable collaboration between Swedish pianist Maggie Olin and Canadian saxophonist Christine Jensen. What is exceptional about this Olin/Jensen pairing is the complementary nature of their singular musical visions. This is reflected in shared thematic structure and the creative spirit of the originals each woman has penned without either one losing her stylistic distinctiveness. The Elingtonian “Orange" is one of the five Olin compositions on ...

Extended Analysis

Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat

by John Kelman
April 11, 2014

It may have been the title of her last album--Treelines, Christine Jensen's first large ensemble recording--but there was no song of that name on the 2010 Justin Time release. Instead, it's the lead-off to Habitat, Jensen's second album with her Jazz Orchestra, a commissioned work for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jazz Orchestra, its director, Dr. Paul Haar, looking for the Canadian saxophonist/composer to continue the strong work begun on Treelines. And why not? Treelines may have been the Montreal, Canada-based ...

Album Review

Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat

by Jack Bowers
April 10, 2014

Christine Jensen is one of the new breed of composer / arrangers who write for large ensembles on a grand scale, favoring themes that paint well-drawn pictures and tell evocative stories, most of which are based on personal experiences or particular sights or sounds that have lingered in their mind and led them to put pen to paper (metaphorically speaking, of course, as most musicians these days use computers like the rest of us). Jensen, a Canadian, ...

Album Review

Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat

by Dan Bilawsky
March 16, 2014

The blurry photo that adorns the cover of Habitat is completely at odds with what awaits inside the package: Some of the most incredibly focused and finely wrought large ensemble music to emerge in recent memory. Canadian saxophonist/composer Christine Jensen won plenty of fans with the her last jazz orchestra album--Treelines (Justin Time Records, 2011)--but this one puts her in an entirely different category. With Habitat, Jensen joins the ranks of the large ensemble elite.