Jazz Articles about Jenna Cave

About Jenna Cave

Album Review

Divergence Jazz Orchestra: Fake It Until You Make It

Read "Fake It Until You Make It" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 17, 2016

Fake It Until You Make It is the second recording by Australia's young and ebullient Divergence Jazz Orchestra, ably co-supervised by composer / arranger Jenna Cave and trombonist Paul Weber (our apology to Weber for not having named him as such in a review of the orchestra's debut album, The Opening Statement). The DJO was formed four years ago (2012) by Cave and Weber “to provide a space where composers and musicians could come together, explore ideas and make music." ...

Album Review

Divergence Jazz Orchestra: The Opening Statement

Read "The Opening Statement" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 4, 2015

Yet another big-band album to be filed under “p" for “pleasant surprises." Jenna Cave is an Australian composer / arranger whose Opening Statement as leader of the Divergence Jazz Orchestra is remarkably strong and consistently pleasing. While her age isn't given in the album notes or online, a brief search has found that Cave was in school as recently as 2010, and from the photos at her web site and elsewhere, looks as though she could still be at a ...