Results for "Collin Sherman"

Collin Sherman

Born: June 14, 1979

Collin was born in 1979 in Lexington, Kentucky. Growing up in Louisville, he began playing saxophone in 4th grade at age 9. He attended Oberlin College (in Oberlin, Ohio) and Tulane Law School (in New Orleans, Louisiana). Collin moved to New York City in 2004, and played with a traditional jazz group on and off while practicing law. He began releasing his own recording in 2012. His early recording were in the ambient electronic vein, partly because the project was entirely self- produced and Collin did not have access to standard recording equipment. As he grew more comfortable recording and producing on his own, he gradually began incorporating his wind instruments (alto and soprano saxophone, Bb soprano and bass clarinet) into his recordings

String Planes

By Collin Sherman

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Slipping Through the String Plane, pt. 1; Slipping Through the String Plane, pt. 2; Desert Resurrection; Pulsebow; Crisis Walk; In Limine Fortunae.

String Planes

by Dan McClenaghan
April 18, 2024

Collin Sherman takes the 'A' train to his day job in Manhattan. Billy Strayhorn, the writer of the tune “Take the 'A' Train" that was made famous by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, must be smiling. Do the seeds of Sherman's compositions germinate during these forty-five-minute rides? Possibly, though his music has no resemblance to Ellington's or ...

Inhabiting the Other

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Mutant Insects; Of Revolving Properties; El Camino De Las Espinas; Clangorous Stomp; Pensive Explorations; The Huntress; Station Drift; Return to the Past; First Stages of Upheaval; Vigilia Inesperada.

Organism Made Luminous

By Collin Sherman

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Failed Deotological Promise; Across Three Fields; Hegemonic Virtues; Dialectic Rejected; Says Flowers; Late Edition; Glassine and Glycerin; Space Mission of the Immortals; Signal Isolation.

Suitable Benchmarks of Reform

By Collin Sherman

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Phalanx Strictures; Rival Machinations; Worthless Objects and Photographs Thereof; Rumination Suite, Mvt. I: Meditation on Resentment; Rumination Suite, Mvt. II: Faults and Missteps; Rumination Suite, Mvt. III: Things Turn Around; Rumination Suite, Mvt. IV: Foundations of Serenity.

Collin Sherman: Organism Made Luminous

by Dan McClenaghan
November 9, 2022

The Covid pandemic slowed artistic progress for many musicians. Opportunities to collaborate became scarce; live music in front of an audience blinked out. However, the enterprising players out there found a way. File sharing and solo projects blossomed, and these—along with the relative affordability of home studio set ups—had an invigorating effect on musical creativity. If ...

Collin Sherman: Suitable Benchmarks of Reform

by Dan McClenaghan
December 27, 2021

Multi-reedist Colin Sherman's thirteenth album, Suitable Benchmarks Of Reform, was made from the same template from which his previous twelve releases came into being—recording alone in his New York City apartment, recording the individual parts then layering each onto the next to make an ensemble sound. This, in the time of the arrival of the Covid ...

Arc of a Slow Decline

By Collin Sherman

Label: Extol Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: Prey Upon the Flock; And Publius Recoils; Sycophant Parade; Compulsory Service; Night Port; Federal Occupation; Space Between Carriers; Transit Paths; Fury Spring; Calculus of Utility; Caesium Sculptures; Sequestration Blues; Polar Ticks.

Collin Sherman: Arc of a Slow Decline

by Dan McClenaghan
November 8, 2020

Music is typically a collaborative affair. A given number of players comes together and each takes a part in the shaping of a particular sound. Teamwork is the word. But sometimes a musician just has to go it alone and--in this technological age that allows such things--the recording then collaging and layering of sounds creates an ...