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Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Harbour

Read "Harbour" reviewed by Scott Lichtman


There's something special about Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra's Harbour. Foremost, the album builds on Jensen's acknowledged talent as master composer for over 25 years. She writes songs that stimulate the emotions as well as the intellect, and she arranges them using rich, cross-instrumental blends and fresh, punctuated motifs. While Jensen already has won JUNO ...

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Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat

Read "Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat" reviewed by John Kelman


It may have been the title of her last album--Treelines, Christine Jensen's first large ensemble recording--but there was no song of that name on the 2010 Justin Time release. Instead, it's the lead-off to Habitat, Jensen's second album with her Jazz Orchestra, a commissioned work for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jazz Orchestra, its director, Dr. Paul ...

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Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat

Read "Habitat" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Christine Jensen is one of the new breed of composer / arrangers who write for large ensembles on a grand scale, favoring themes that paint well-drawn pictures and tell evocative stories, most of which are based on personal experiences or particular sights or sounds that have lingered in their mind and led them to put pen ...

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Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat

Read "Habitat" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The blurry photo that adorns the cover of Habitat is completely at odds with what awaits inside the package: Some of the most incredibly focused and finely wrought large ensemble music to emerge in recent memory. Canadian saxophonist/composer Christine Jensen won plenty of fans with the her last jazz orchestra album--Treelines (Justin Time ...

Article: Album Review

Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Treelines

Read "Treelines" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


L'aria frizzante del Canada deve avere un effetto benefico sulla conduzione delle big band. La saxofonista Christine Jensen, sorella della più nota Ingrid trombettista, si presenta alla grande con questo ottimo Treelines che riporta d'attualità lo stile di Gil Evans, canadese di origine, cosmopolita di cuore. C'è un evidente anello di congiunzione costituito dal lavoro egregio ...


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