Jazz Articles about Sarah Bernstein

About Sarah Bernstein

Album Review

Sarah Bernstein: Crazy Lights Shining

Read "Crazy Lights Shining" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
August 1, 2019

Nata a San Francisco ma residente e operante a New York, Sarah Bernstein è violinista, compositrice, improvvisatrice, ma anche poetessa, ed ha alle spalle numerose importanti collaborazioni, tra le quali spiccano quelle con Anthony Braxton. In questo singolare e suggestivo Crazy Lights Shining la troviamo a duettare con il percussionista Satoshi Takeishi, intenta a unire i suoi molteplici interessi. L'album, che supera di poco la mezz'ora di musica, raccoglie infatti nove brani, tutti a firma della Bernstein che, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Let's Get Experimental

by Patrick Burnette
October 11, 2018

Violinist, composer, singer, and poet Sarah Bernstein visits the 'cast to discuss her career in music, her various on-going groups and projects, and her recording with percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, Crazy Lights Shining. The rest of the program explores various kinds of “experimental music," from drummer Rudy Royston's unusual front-line of bass clarinet and accordion to Thrainn Hjalmarsson's.. well, we aren't sure just what Thrainn was up to, but it sure was experimental. Playlist Interview with Sarah Bernstein about ...

Album Review

Sarah Bernstein Unearthish: Crazy Lights Shining

Read "Crazy Lights Shining" reviewed by Gareth Thompson

by Gareth Thompson
June 2, 2018

The concept of “free" is linked with jazz more than any other music genre. But “free" to do what, exactly? Free to think what you like, play what you want, express what you must? May as well throw in the freedom to live how you choose. Listening to violinist Sarah Bernstein's music, these questions occur as she delights in breaking conventions. Her avant-jazz Sarah Bernstein Quartet exudes calm control even as it induces awe and fear. Among her solo projects ...

Album Review

Sarah Bernstein: Still/Free

Read "Still/Free" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi
July 15, 2016

Nuovo talento in equilibrio tra jazz e poesia, musica per archi e improvvisazione, Sarah Bernstein introduce questo Still/Free con un lungo brano di squisito minimalismo ipnotico, poche note tematiche che lasciano il segno di una sensibilità particolare, interessata certo più alla musica di gruppo piuttosto che ad una vetrina per violino solista. Anzi, lo strumento sotto le dita di Sarah è rarefatto e sornione, le sue frasi legate hanno consistenza liquida, in bell'amalgama con quelle del piano di Kris Davis, ...