Tag: Larry Grenadier

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Like a trickster or shapeshifter the bassist Mali Obomsawin slips easily between popular and jazzier forms. As a composer she can be fierce and incantatory, erecting songs that are defiant and accusatory while leaving the listener in their thrall. A citizen of Odanak First Nation, an Abenaki community located near the mouth of the Saint-François River in Quebec, on Sweet Tooth her debut as a bandleader she blended traditional music and indigenous mythology with contemporary chants and squalls of free improvisation...

The tenor saxophonist Mark Turner is now in the fourth decade of his career, an airy and still somehow tenuous fixture on the jazz scene from the release of Yam Yam in 1995, his debut as a leader whose quintet spotlighted a group of fellow up-and-comers including the pianist Brad Mehldau, the guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, the bassist Larry Grenadier...

When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they'd veer in the tried and true direction of a free jazz squall, heading into the studio one afternoon in the flush of autumn and letting it all hang...