CD The hugely respected and ultra-hip 'jazz and beyond' group The Claudia Quintet are one of the most influential jazz group in existence today. September is the seventh album by this award winning, longstanding five-piece that is, in the words of Duke Ellington, a band 'beyond category'. Led by composer and drummer John Hollenbeck, Claudia have quietly but firmly and definitively recast jazz into shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock. Celebrating 15 years of work together with the release of September, this NYC ensemble's sound continues to explore the edge without alienating the mainstream, proving that genre-defying music can be for everyone. This album is a celebration of the month of September and the joys of composition! It pays homage to a time of year when Hollenbeck seeks the isolation and creative focus of artist residencies. In the last dozen years — often in September — he's spent invaluable time at retreats in places as far afield as Italy, New Mexico and upstate New York. Each piece on September has a date followed by a title, and the oldest of them, '12th: Coping Song,' harks back to the nightmarish events of 9/11/2001. The experience 'has stuck with me,' writes Hollenbeck, 'so much so that I realized I cannot think or see or write down a date in September without those memories coming back to me.' It took years but Hollenbeck finally got the idea 'to write music that was somehow tied to other days in September in the hope of trying to rework and transform the traumatic residue through composition. Jazz
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