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Sarah Bernstein
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DownBeat Rising Star Critics Choice as Violinist of the Year 2020
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Sarah Bernstein: Crazy Lights Shining
by Neri Pollastri
Nata a San Francisco ma residente e operante a New York, Sarah Bernstein è violinista, compositrice, improvvisatrice, ma anche poetessa, ed ha alle spalle numerose importanti collaborazioni, tra le quali spiccano quelle con Anthony Braxton. In questo singolare e suggestivo Crazy Lights Shining la troviamo a duettare con il percussionista Satoshi Takeishi, intenta a unire i suoi molteplici interessi. L'album, che supera di poco la mezz'ora di musica, raccoglie infatti nove brani, tutti a firma della Bernstein che, ...
read moreLet's Get Experimental
by Patrick Burnette
Violinist, composer, singer, and poet Sarah Bernstein visits the 'cast to discuss her career in music, her various on-going groups and projects, and her recording with percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, Crazy Lights Shining. The rest of the program explores various kinds of experimental music," from drummer Rudy Royston's unusual front-line of bass clarinet and accordion to Thrainn Hjalmarsson's.. well, we aren't sure just what Thrainn was up to, but it sure was experimental. Playlist Interview with Sarah Bernstein about ...
read moreSarah Bernstein Unearthish: Crazy Lights Shining
by Gareth Thompson
The concept of free" is linked with jazz more than any other music genre. But free" to do what, exactly? Free to think what you like, play what you want, express what you must? May as well throw in the freedom to live how you choose. Listening to violinist Sarah Bernstein's music, these questions occur as she delights in breaking conventions. Her avant-jazz Sarah Bernstein Quartet exudes calm control even as it induces awe and fear. Among her solo projects ...
read moreSarah Bernstein: Still/Free
by Stefano Merighi
Nuovo talento in equilibrio tra jazz e poesia, musica per archi e improvvisazione, Sarah Bernstein introduce questo Still/Free con un lungo brano di squisito minimalismo ipnotico, poche note tematiche che lasciano il segno di una sensibilità particolare, interessata certo più alla musica di gruppo piuttosto che ad una vetrina per violino solista. Anzi, lo strumento sotto le dita di Sarah è rarefatto e sornione, le sue frasi legate hanno consistenza liquida, in bell'amalgama con quelle del piano di Kris Davis, ...
read more"A sound of wild abstraction drawing upon the traditions of experimental noise, free rock and avant-garde jazz. Heavy, lithe, raw and spirited." Joseph Neff, The Vinyl District
"Musical flora and fauna drawing sustenance from biting sarcasm, stinging political statements and voices from the other side." Elliott Simon, New York City Jazz Record
"Cerebral composition, ludic puzzles and feisty improvisation." Daniel Spicer, JazzWise
Primary Instrument
Violin
Location
New York City