Jazz Articles about Jayna Nelson

Jayna Nelson: Bloom of Creation

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 3, 2010

While it is often recognized that music is a matter of both the head and the heart, few artists have taken the statement as literally as the flutist Jayna Nelson. Before the recording of a concert at the legendary Knitting Factory, she instructed her fellow players by handing out copies of a diagram showing the brain's division into two different parts; left and right, the idea being that the musicians would play different parts of the brain, thus achieving a ...