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Alex Lefaivre: YUL
by Geno Thackara
Surely this isn't a Christmas recording released at the height of summer, you ask? Not a homage to the great Yul Brynner either? No, the title in question is less obvious and thankfully more interesting than that. Its appeal is a subtle kind, which is well suited to Alex LeFaivre's supportive sensibility as bassist. His strengths ...
Alex Lefaivre Quartet: YUL
by Anya Wassenberg
Bassist and composer Alex Lefaivre's YUL is named after the airport code for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, Canada, and the liner notes say the release was inspired by his home town and its cosmopolitan vibe. Like the fun-loving city, the album's sound is contemporary and imaginative. YUL is characterized by ...
Polygon
By Erik Hove
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Tessellation; Fractured; Polygon; Morse Code; Metal Clouds; Inversion; Tetrahedron; Drift (re_synthesis II); Octagon.
Erik Hove Chamber Ensemble: Polygon
by Pascal-Denis Lussier
Vancouver-born, Montreal-based alto saxophonist/composer Erik Hove is a compelling emergent leader, already a busy sideman on the city's scene, involved in all sorts of projects and playing with many local heavyweights since proving himself with the award-winning urban jazz Soundclash project he formed while in New York, studying with Greg Osby, and revived in Montreal, eventually ...
Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat
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 ...
Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Habitat
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 ...
In Three Acts
Label: Elephant Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Overture; Contrecoeur; Tour de Force; Quiet; Little Sketch; Tin Drum; B-side; Gods Of Taste; Dadar; 80s
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