Jazz Articles about Melissa Pipe

About Melissa Pipe

Radio & Podcasts

Shirley Scott, Dave McMurray & Melissa Pipe

by Joe Dimino
June 4, 2023

From a modern day multi-instrumental master from Canada, we begin the 805th Episode of Neon Jazz with Melissa Pipe and her sextet and music from Of What Remains. From there, we dig into some new releases from Ben Cassara, Dave McMurray, Shirley Scott, Florian Arbenz and up and comer Sam Butler. We round it all out with The Lew Anderson Big Band circa 1998. Dig the jazz, my friends.Playlist Melissa Pipe Sextet “Day" Of What Remains (Odd Sound) ...

Album Review

Melissa Pipe Sextet: Of What Remains

Read "Of What Remains" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 19, 2023

On the enchanting Of What Remains, her debut as a leader, Canadian saxophonist and bassoonist Melissa Pipe delightfully blurs the boundaries between jazz and western classical music. Pipe leads a cohesive sextet on seven of her haunting originals, on the theme of time, and an arrangement of Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits' “Puudutus." For instance, “La Part Des Anges" opens with Pipe playing the main motif on her airy bassoon, with support from drummer Mili Hong's effervescent beats. After ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Scolari, Reddy, Pipe And More

by Bob Osborne
May 4, 2023

On this show we present an eclectic mix of brand new releases from Claudio Scolari Project, Roxane Reddy, Melissa Pipe Sextet, Star City Survivor, Emil and the Detectives, Peter Orins, and, Peter Brötzmann with Heather Leigh and Fred Lonberg-Holm. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Claudio Scolari Project “Cannoli on Board" from Intermission (Principal Records) 00:50 Roxane Reddy “Les Balienes-Premier Mouvement" from Jaywalking (Multiple Chord Music) 09:11 Melissa Pipe Sextet “Fragment No.2" from Of What Remains (ODD Sound) 16:45 Star ...

Album Review

Melissa Pipe Sextet: Of What Remains

Read "Of What Remains" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 28, 2023

Montreal-based multi-reedist Melissa Pipe's artistic vision is fully formed. Her debut recording, Of What Remains, features a sextet which explores darkness with deep tones--Pipe plays baritone sax and bassoon here--by delving into temporality, the shifting of time and being, via chamber music reveries and jazz grooves. Noir is a word which comes immediately to mind on the disc's opener, “Complainte du vent," and its follow-up, “La part des anges." a pair of somber tunes which may evoke a ...