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Christine Jensen

Saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen is considered "one of the most important Canadian composers of her generation", according to Globe and Mail jazz critic, Mark Miller, and has emerged as a creative alto and soprano saxophonist on both the Canadian and international jazz scene. "Jensen writes in three dimensions, with a quiet kind of authority that makes the many elements cohere. Wayne Shorter, Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler come to mind."

Article: Radio & Podcasts

International Jazz

by Jerome Wilson
November 2, 2022

This show highlights jazz from Sweden, South Africa, Japan, and Slovenia. Musicians heard on the show include Kaja Draksler, Monica Zetterlund, Aki Takase, and Louis Moholo-Moholo. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 John Surman “Mayflower" ...

News: Education

Eastman School of Music Appoints Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media

September 5, 2022

The Eastman School of Music has recently announced Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media. Saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen has been described as “an original voice on the international jazz scene… [and] one of Canada’s most compelling composers,” by Mark Miller of the Globe and Mail. Christine will make the move from ...

Album

Genealogy

By CODE Quartet

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Tipsy; Watching It All Slip Away; Genealogy; O Sacred Head, Now Wounded; Wind Up; Requiem; Day Moon; Beach Community.

Video

Jazz en Rafale presents: Christine Jensen (Teaser)

Featuring the music of Christine Jensen
Duration: 00:56
December 4, 2021

Saxophonist, composer and orchestra conductor based in Montreal, Christine Jensen has travelled all over the world with her music. Honoured with the Oscar Peterson Award at the 2017 Montreal International Jazz Festival, she has also received two Juno Awards for the recordings she made with her jazz orchestra for the albums Treelines (2011) and Habitat (2014). As well, Jensen co-directs, along with her sister, the trumpet player Ingrid Jensen, the Nordic Connect ensemble. Their latest recording, Infinitude, with Ben Monder on guitar, was nominated for a Juno Award in 2017. For this show, Jensen will be presenting her music in a quartet format, and is honoured to be surrounded by three exceptional jazz artists contributing their improvisations to this project.

Article: Album Review

Beth McKenna: Beyond Here

by Dan McClenaghan
October 27, 2021

Montreal-based multi-reedist Beth McKenna's Beyond Here proves a few things. One, she is a fine arranger of her original compositions for her jazz quintet. Two: she writes. complex-yet-engaging tunes that often go after the groove. And three: there is an expansiveness--compositionally and production-wise--in her music that could probably transfer nicely to larger ensemble work. She studied ...

Song of the Day

Watching It All Slip Away

May 23, 2021

Album: Genealogy
By CODE Quartet
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 05:55

Article: Album Review

CODE Quartet: Genealogy

by Friedrich Kunzmann
May 6, 2021

Chordless or not, quartets tend to find a way around the necessity of vertical simultaneousness to create significant harmonies. With the Montreal-based Code Quartet it's the former variety of instrumentation, combining a vital rhythm section of drum and bass with two horns, much like Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet or its logical continuation in the group Old ...

News: Event

Celebrate ‘Jazz In Canada’ With Two Free Virtual Concerts April 29-30

April 20, 2021

On April 29-30, 2021 at 8PM EDT, audiences are invited to experience the vitality of Canadian Jazz artists’ Kris Davis and FYEAR, co-presented by the National Arts Centre and Canada Council for the Arts, at Germany's jazzahead! These concerts will be streamed online from the National Arts Centre’s Facebook page and simultaneously streamed by 18* Canadian ...

Article: Album Review

Remy Le Boeuf: Light as a Word

by Jordan Penney
April 10, 2021

Light as a Word is the debut full-length album from saxophonist and composer Remy Le Boeuf as a leader, and it moves fluidly in liminal spaces. Its format and its performers—a sextet that includes piano, guitar, double bass, drums and tenor and alto sax—are firmly in a jazz idiom. But the songs themselves are more through-composed ...