Kenney

Violinist Alexi Kenney is showing us a possible future of music with Shifting Ground, his program pairing Bach solo sonatas from the 18th Century and contemporary works by Steve Reich, Georges Enescu and Du Yun, among others.

Violinist Alexi Kenney is showing us a possible future of music with Shifting Ground, his program pairing Bach solo sonatas from the 18th Century and contemporary works by Steve Reich, Georges Enescu and Du Yun, among others.

Violinist Alexi Kenney is showing us a possible future of music with Shifting Ground, his program pairing Bach solo sonatas from the 18th Century and contemporary works by Steve Reich, Georges Enescu and Du Yun, among others.

Having each followed their own distinct trajectory of exploration for decades - interweaving rigorous experimentalism with transcultural conversations - and building upon roughly 20 years working as a duo, Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang return with Azure, their third full-length with Ideologic Organ. Among their most riveting outings to date, comprising five new compositions recorded in Seattle during the spring of 2022, this remarkable body of sonority culminates in a singular gesture of contemporary minimalism that slowly unfolds across the album’s length.

In the quiet surrounding the pandemic, Madeline Kenney made sonic sketches in the basement studio she shared with her then-partner. She arranged phrases that called her—the sharp knife of a synth cutting a path along a blooming arpeggio, drums stuttering firm and tight. Working this way, she amassed a collection of songs she had no particular aims for. Some formed her 2021 EP Summer Quarter, others languished.

AVID Jazz presents the latest release in our Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Beverly Kenney, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "Sings For Johnny Smith"; "Come Swing With Me"; "Sings With Jimmy Jones & The Basie-Ites"; "Sings For Playboys" and "Like Yesterday".

The Same Again: ANRM (Tiny Telephone Session) places Madeline Kenney in a light of which many have never seen before — unless you caught her immaculate mid-pandemic livestream performance for Outside Lands’ Inside Lands at the Saint Joseph’s Art Society, that is. Recorded at Tiny Telephone in Oakland, CA in just one day, Kenney rerecorded her latest studio album A New Reality Mind in full with only a grand and an open upright piano (aside from the occasional inclusion of backing vocalists).

New York-based vibraphonist Yuhan Su, a Taiwanese native, has built a reputation as “among the most prominent contemporary voices” (Jazziz) on her instrument. Liberated Gesture, her second release for Sunnyside (and fourth album overall), follows up City Animals from 2018 with a new set of original compositions, a new band of heavyweights and a renewed outlook on art and possibility.