Results for "SHAWN MAXWELL"

Expectation & Experience

By Shawn Maxwell

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Expectation; J.C. Jones; Empty Shelf; Quiet House; The Great Divide; Feeling Remote; Breathe; A Change of Climate; Alternative Facts; Every Day Is Monday; No Peace Without Justice; The Show Can’t Go On; Empty Stage; Six Hundred; Lockdown; The New Abnormal; Experience.

Brand New Releases

by Bob Osborne
December 9, 2021

This week new albums from Enrique Peña, Gary Eastman, Shawn Maxwell and Philippe Côté with Marc Copland. Also, continuing my look at the recent releases by Craig Taborn and The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with their suites inspired by Dewey Redman and Anthony Braxton.Playlist Enrique Peña “Gris" from Intersticios (ears&eyes) 00:00 The Scottish National ...

Shawn Maxwell: Expectation & Experience

by Jack Bowers
May 22, 2021

On Expectation & Experience, his tenth recording as a leader, Chicago-based woodwind specialist Shawn Maxwell is accompanied by almost thirty musicians—but never by more than three on any of its seventeen tracks. Maxwell says the compositions were written during the global Covid-19 pandemic, and the musicians were mustered singly, most in their own homes. While each ...

Music in My Mind

By Shawn Maxwell

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Our Princess is in Another Castle; Music In My Mind; Untitled Tune #1; Maxwell's House; Herding Happiness; He Gone; King Bill; Another Monday; Glamasue; Snow Snow.

Shawn Maxwell's New Tomorrow: Music in My Mind

by Dan McClenaghan
September 29, 2018

After a series of well-received mainstream recordings, Chicago-based alto saxophonist Shawn Maxwell moved into a “taking more chances" mode with Shawn Maxwell's New Tomorrow (OA2 Records, 2016). Much of the sound there fell into the exploratory, even avant-garde area. He delves further into that territory with Music In My Mind. With albums titled Originals ...

Shawn Maxwell

Born: November 1, 1976

“This is bold music. Maxwell isn’t afraid to try out new ideas and take chances…” – Frank Alkyer, Downbeat Magazine

From his youth in the school music programs of Joliet, IL, through the Music B.A. program at

Millikin University, to 25 years of performing on the Chicago music scene and touring the United States, Shawn Maxwell has developed a unique voice on the saxophone.

“A spirited free-thinker and committed non-conformist” – Bill Milkowski (Millstream album notes)

From his first album of original compositions in 2005, to the 2026 release of his fourteenth album Frenetic Domain, he has forged a distinctive style of writing and arrangement. The traditions of jazz form the foundation for Shawn’s music; he builds on that with inspiration from the music he grew up with – rock, funk, hip hop, R&B, classical. Though his compositions have been compared to Frank Zappa, Philip Glass, the Canterbury Sound, and Bach…

Maxwell's House

May 18, 2018

Album: Music in My Mind
By Shawn Maxwell
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2018
Duration: 4:01

Shawn Maxwell's New Tomorrow

By Shawn Maxwell

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Embraceable Excuses; Work In Progress; Responsibility Run; Inside Back; Whole Hearted Half The Time; Unexpected Heel Turn; Progressive Regression; Saturday Morning Dance; Carbird Seat; Three Kinds Of Heat; Throw Away Tune #2; Eustachian Tube Dysfunction; Hitting Streak; Bye For Now.

Shawn Maxwell's New Tomorrow: Shawn Maxwell's New Tomorrow

by Dan McClenaghan
September 16, 2016

Chicago-based saxophonist Shawn Maxwell has produced an excellent run of straight ahead CD releases in the past decade, sets like his two self-produced discs, Originals (2006) and Originals II (2008), and Maxwell's House (Chicago Session LTD, 2010) before he changed his game up with Shawn Maxwell's Alliance (Chicago Sessions LTD, 2015), a shift away from mainstream ...

Shawn Maxwell: Shawn Maxwell's Alliance

by Ben Scholz
March 1, 2015

Fronted by an already well-established Chicago area saxophonist, the Shawn Maxwell Alliance expands the concept of what a mixed ensemble can accomplish in the jazz realm. This debut album features a sprawling list of modern jazz composers and leaders including another Chicago saxophonist, Chris Greene, vocalist Keri Johnsrud, vibraphonist Stephen Lynerd, and bassist Stacy McMichael. The ...