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Chris Jentsch

Chris Jentsch (guitar) is a recording and performing artist working primarily in jazz and contemporary improvisational forms. Based in Brooklyn since 1999, his main ensemble is Jentsch Group in its trio, quartet, nonet, or large configurations. Jentsch is also a composer of jazz and concert music having been awarded grants/commissions from NY State Council on the Arts (3), Meet the Composer, the Composers Assistance Program of the American Music Center (2), American Composers Forum (2), Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble, Penfield Commission Project, and Chamber Music America's New Jazz Works Program. Jentsch’s first CD Media Event was released in 1998 and features his working trio from that era

Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: The New Immigrant Experience

By JACK BOWERS

Is it mere coincidence, or does the rise in the number of “concept" albums by jazz big bands signal that the trend is here to stay? Trumpeter Brian Lynch won a 2020 Grammy Award for his Journey Through Literature in Music, and there have been other tenet-based enterprises within the past year by Dan Jonas, John ...

Chris Jentsch Group No Net: Topics in American History

By JEROME WILSON

Guitarist Chris Jentsch's newest project is a suite that treats various periods of American history to a somewhat skeptical, alternative viewpoint. It doesn't attempt to tell a chronological story but instead hopscotches through topics like the Civil War, Westward Expansion, the Cold War and post-World War II suburban sprawl with a constant sense of unease and ...

It All About the Sax with Kyle Nasser

By NICK DAVIES

This show features an interview with saxophonist Kyle Nasser talking about his career in music. We also discuss his latest album Persistent Fancy, which looks at where people originate from which can be different to where they live. As this is a jazz show there is lots of new music and some tracks from the archives ...

Chris Jentsch Group No Net: Topics in American History

By JACK BOWERS

Brooklyn-based guitarist / composer Chris Jentsch writes with clear images in mind and invites the listener to see and hear them as he does. On his sixth and latest CD, Jentsch draws on a longstanding interest in historical events and trends to describe in musical terms Topics in American History ranging from 1491 (the year before ...

Jentsch Group No Net: Topics in American History

By TROY DOSTERT

Don't let the album's title fool you. Guitarist/composer Chris Jentsch's Topics In American History isn't a disguised syllabus for a college seminar. Jentsch's liner notes reveal an abiding interest in American history, but his modus operandi is to use pivotal aspects of the nation's past as springboards for creative, immersive music. Although using just a nine-piece ...

Topics in American History

By CHRIS JENTSCH

Label: Blue Schist
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1491; Manifest Destiny; Lincoln-Douglas Debates; Tempest-Tost; Suburban Diaspora; Dominos; Meeting at Surratt’s.

Fractured Pop

By CHRIS JENTSCH

Label: Fleur De Son
Released: 2017
Track listing: CD: Fractured Pop; Radio Silence; Are You Bye?; Outside Line; Old Folks Song; Old Folks Postlude; Route 666; Meeting At Surratt's; Imagining the Mirror; Cycle Of Life; Follow That Cab. DVD: Fractured Pop; summer grasses, all that remains of soldiers' dreams; Outside Line; Are You Bye?

Jentsch Group Quartet: Fractured Pop

By JEROME WILSON

Chris Jentsch is a guitarist who, from the evidence of this recording, enjoys splashing around in the wide pool of music between jazz and rock. His work here goes all the way from grooving hardcore jazz to ambient nature sounds with a lot of fun things going on in between those two poles. The ...

Sheryl Bailey: A New Promise

By MARK F. TURNER

A New Promise by Sheryl Bailey is an outstanding work from a guitarist (and a rare release from a female jazz guitarist) who can run with the big dogs, in this case a big band ensemble. While her confident and stylish chops might suggest the phraseology of Kenny Burrell or Pat Metheny, she has a unique ...