Description
Tracklist:
A1: Ornette Goes Home
A2: Every Bear That Ever There Was
B1: Jaroujiji
B2: The Sea Also Rises
B3: All Species Parade
C1: Shutdown Stomp
C2: House Of Flowers
C3: The Cape
D1: With Sea Lions
D2: Nocturne For 2020
Featuring
Jenny Scheinman Violin, Compositions
Carmen Staaf Piano
Bill Frisell Guitar
Julian Lage Acoustic Guitar (3, 6, 10)
Nels Cline Guitar (7, 8)
Tony Scherr Bass
Kenny Wollesen Drums
Jenny Scheinman, acclaimed violinist and composer, for many years a stalwart of the New York jazz and creative music scenes, returned to her native Humboldt County, California in 2012. There she has continued her artistic evolution, as heard on her recent albums Here on Earth (packed with moments of joyous ecstasy and wind-swept solemnity Downbeat), Parlour Game, a co-led collaboration with Allison Miller (the band levitates and feels grounded both PopMatters), and The Littlest Prisoner, an album of songs in trio with Bill Frisell and Brian Blade (self-assured, made with a deft, steady hand New York Times).
For years, Scheinman nursed the idea of a musical homage to Humboldt, in particular the area known as the Lost Coast, a remote, earthquake- and mudslide-prone region of coastal northern California, where she was raised. She considered the project from many angles. She wrote a song cycle based on the crusty characters from her hometown and sketched out a surrealist multimedia project based on the countys namesake, Alexander Von Humboldt. She collaborated with filmmaker Ai Aiwane on a video installation about the Mattole River (Cojo Come Home) and immersed herself in the sounds and cultural history of the region, with hopes of conjuring, in music, the extraordinary diversity of life, past and present, in the Pacific Northwest. Her epic new release, All Species Parade, is the result of these meditations.
