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Elsa Nilsson, Miles Okazaki, and Andrew Cyrille

by Jerome Wilson
September 9, 2026

This program features recent music by Elsa Nilsson and Miles Okazaki and older work by Terje Rypdal and Andrew Cyrille.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Tom Ollendorff “Meaningless Mirror" from Where in the World (Fresh Sound New Talent) 1:06 Caelan Cardello “Groundwork" from Chapter One (Jazz Bird) 6:32 Host Speaks 12:24 Kurt Elling and the WDR Big Band “They ...

Album Review

Elsa Nilsson: Liminal

Read "Liminal" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 5, 2026

If, for just 52 minutes, one needs to step away from the breach, do not hesitate to push play on Liminal. A Brooklyn conceptualist by way of Sweden and Seattle, “Andetag" (Swedish for “breath") opens flautist/composer Elsa Nilsson's Liminal. But, all things considered, it could have been sequenced anywhere in the playlist given Nilsson's nod to late-night dance floors. Elusive, bluesy and a very danceable dance of equals, Band of Pulses--Nilsson, fellow piano arsonist Santiago Leibson, wiry bassist Marty Kenney ...

Album Review

Elsa Nilsson and Martin Fabricius: Glaciers

Read "Glaciers" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
February 5, 2026

Two pathbreaking musicians who are bringing new dimensions to their instruments, flutist Elsa Nilsson and vibraphonist Martin Fabricius, explore uncharted terrain on Glaciers, their first recorded encounter together. It is a freely-improvised date, with lots of room for mutual creativity, and the patient, careful reflection which characterizes these thirteen pieces makes for a stirring, thought- provoking listening experience. Nilsson has earned accolades for her work with the Esthesis Quartet, most recently on Sound and Fury (Sunnyside, 2025), but ...

Album Review

Esthesis Quartet: Sound & Fury

Read "Sound & Fury" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 16, 2025

Sound & Fury è legato a doppio filo a due eventi ravvicinati nel tempo. Da una parte il periodo pandemico nel quale i futuri membri del quartetto condividono via Zoom esperienze, motivazioni, obiettivi che porteranno alla formazione ufficiale del gruppo denominato Esthesis. Dall'altra la prematura scomparsa nel marzo 2022 di Ron Miles, mentore di due componenti della formazione, al quale è dedicata la suite che comprende i primi quattro brani. In origine lo stesso Miles doveva essere parte ...

Album Review

Elsa Nilsson: Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina

Read "Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 3, 2024

Imagine someone coming up to you selflessly offering the gift of time--time to step away from the struggle; to hold a baby high--and that someone is flautist/composer Elsa Nilssonand she is playing her most translucent aria, “The Wind From The North Comes From The West" Some human endeavors are simply more beautiful than others. Nilsson, an active member of the downtown creatives and recipient of the 2022 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant stands alongside ...

Album Review

Esthesis Quartet: Time Zones

Read "Time Zones" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
April 13, 2023

The four members of Esthesis Quartet, flutist Elsa Nilsson, pianist Dawn Clement, bassist Emma Dayhuff and drummer Tina Raymond, each live in different parts of the United States, but, as this album shows, when they get together their playing has an easy and natural rapport. With flute as a lead instrument, the group sometimes have the cooler sound associated with West Coast jazz as on the breezy “Hollywood" and the gentle “First Light." However, over the course of ...

Album Review

Esthesis Quartet: Time Zones

Read "Time Zones" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2023

Time Zones is the second album by the Esthesis Quartet, comprised of four accomplished women, all whom do indeed reside in different time zones. Flutist Elsa Nilsson, originally from Sweden, lives in Brooklyn, NY; pianist/vocalist Dawn Clement makes her home in Denver, CO; bassist Emma Dayhuff lives in Chicago, drummer Tina Raymond in California, where Time Zones was recorded. The four first met at various festivals, conventions and other sessions around the country, drawn together by a ...