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Sara Caswell

2018 Grammy Nominee Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist…one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to the late David Baker, internationally-renowned jazz educator and former Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Rooted in an early exposure to a variety of musical genres, Sara’s technical facility intertwined with her gift for lyricism continue to attract growing attention to her artistry as a jazz soloist, sideman, and teacher. Recognized as a “Rising Star” in the DownBeat Magazine Critics and Readers Polls every year since 2013, Sara’s two groups (the Sara Caswell Quartet and the Caswell Sisters Quintet) have been heard in venues ranging from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club to university concert halls nationwide

Chicken Or Pasta

By Oscar Penas

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Chicken Or Pasta; M.A.S.; October; The Seventies; Spaghetti Western; Extraordinary Ordinary; As Long as I Have You; Ethereal.

The Way To You

By Sara Caswell

Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: South Shore; Stillness; Aneis; On My Way To You; Voyage; Warren's Way; Last Call; Spinning; O Que Tinha De Ser.

These Precious Days

By Mary Foster Conklin

Label: Mock Turtle Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Summertime; Some Cats Know; Just a Little Lovin'; Come in From the Rain; Scars; Just For Now; A Little White Ship; Heart's Desire; Rainbow; Until It's Time for You To Go; September Song.

The Other One

By Henry Threadgill

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Movement I: Sections 1-2; Section 3; Sections 4-4A; Sections 5-6; Sections 6A-7A; Sections 8-8A; Sections 9-11; Section 11 (Trapset Interlude); Finale; Movement II; Movement III: Section 11A; Sections 12-12B; Section 12B (Violin Interlude); Section 13; Section 14; Section 15; Section 16; Section 17; Finale.

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension

by Angelo Leonardi
September 25, 2023

Precursore nel 2009 (con l'innovativo Infernal Machines) del nuovo rinascimento orchestrale nel jazz, Darcy James Argue approda all'etichetta Nonesuch e pubblica il nuovo album in studio: un doppio CD realizzato con i consueti partner della Secret Society più l'aggiunta della cantante Cecile McLorin Salvant e della violinista Sara Caswell. A differenza degli ultimi ...

Chuck Owen: Renderings

by Pierre Giroux
August 23, 2023

Renderings by Chuck Owen and The WDR Big Band is a remarkable jazz album that showcases the artist's mastery as a composer, arranger and bandleader. This release stands as a testament to Owen's innovative approach to jazz music blending traditional elements with modern influences to create a unique and captivating sonic experience. ...

Chuck Owen and the WDR Big Band: Renderings

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2023

Anyone who uses YouTube to search for contemporary jazz must surely be familiar with Germany's blue-ribbon WDR Big Band, as it is abundantly represented at the site. Bearing that in mind, it may come as no surprise to those seekers (and others) that the WDR's latest recording, on which it is paired with the esteemed Florida-based ...

Henry Threadgill: The Other One

by John Ephland
July 25, 2023

Listening to Henry Threadgill's music, the bobbing and weaving doesn't maintain a continuity but can jump from one strand to another, one scene to another, as in a dream. It is tonal and not, just as dreams are, perhaps, rhapsodic or unkempt, the story or plot being as tangible, fungible as a summer breeze.

Henry Threadgill Ensemble: The Other One

by Troy Dostert
July 11, 2023

Now that Henry Threadgill has begun receiving the accolades he has long deserved--the Pulitzer Prize he won in 2016 for In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi Recordings, 2015) being just the most prominent example--it is impressive to find him still relentlessly stretching himself as a performer and composer. Since his first forays into ...