Jazz Articles about Shawn Conley

About Shawn Conley

Album Review

Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens: American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation

Read "American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
December 18, 2024

Rhiannon Giddens is not afraid of big projects. American Railroad, the album, is part of a larger work, subtitled A Musical Journey of Reclamation, which Giddens initiated with the widely acclaimed Silkroad Ensemble, a diverse international collective of performers, improvisers and composers created by Yo Yo Ma. American Railroad digs into the building of America's transcontinental railway system, focusing on voices that have been missing from public narratives: voices of the laborers on whose backs the hard work fell, of ...

Album Review

9 Horses: Perfectest Herald

Read "Perfectest Herald" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
October 13, 2015

Perfectest Herald is another release that stretches the label “jazz" or even that of “creative improvised music" as it casts its spell and ultimately becomes completely enveloping. 9 Horses, the trio put together by composer and mandolin virtuoso Joseph Brent, consists of two other extraordinary players: violinist Sara Caswell and bassist Shawn Conley who seem just perfect for Brent's music. What is heard is a wonderful mixing of many styles and genres, including classical, jazz and folk which ...