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New Music from Unexpected Quarters

  • Iris Trio: Anna Petrova, Christine Carter, Zoë Martin-Doike. Photo by Joe Chase.
  • Nina Reiter (bottom center) and MetaLogue

For their latest release, Project Earth: The Blue Chapter, the Iris Trio, which can typically be found in the classical music neighborhood, offers a suite of suites composed in a genre-crossing style by pianist and composer Florian Hoefner, best known for his work as a jazz artist, with accompanying poems by Don McKay. From Swiss jazz vocalist Nina Reiter come audacious arrangements for her tentet group, MetaLogue, of the music of the late Swiss composer Mani Planzer, who refused to allow the strictures of any particular genre to impede his self-expression.

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New Releases from Artists Familiar and New (to Me)

  • Falkner Evans group: Matt Wilson, Steve Nelson, Ron Horton, Evans, Ted Nash, Michael Blake, Belden Bullock. Photo by Jimmy Katz.
  • Phraim: Marc Mezgolits, Peter Primus Frosch, Nina Reiter, Stephan Plecher. Photo by Felix Groteloh.

On Marbles, pianist/composer Falkner Evans employs a sextet (occasionally septet) of stellar and well-known New York musicians to produce richly colored harmonies across nine original compositions. On Tides, the Swiss quartet Phraim, fronted by vocalist Nina Reiter, delivers a robust collection of distinctively original compositions that blend elements of rock, jazz, and art song.

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