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Collin Sherman

Collin was born in 1979 in Lexington, Kentucky. Growing up in Louisville, he began playing saxophone in 4th grade at age 9. He attended Oberlin College (in Oberlin, Ohio) and Tulane Law School (in New Orleans, Louisiana). Collin moved to New York City in 2004, and played with a traditional jazz group on and off while practicing law. He began releasing his own recording in 2012. His early recording were in the ambient electronic vein, partly because the project was entirely self- produced and Collin did not have access to standard recording equipment. As he grew more comfortable recording and producing on his own, he gradually began incorporating his wind instruments (alto and soprano saxophone, Bb soprano and bass clarinet) into his recordings. By his 2017 release, "Biologic Obligations", Collin was recording material which was more explicitly jazz-oriented, while retaining some of the droning, ambient qualities that defined his earliest releases.


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Collin Sherman: Organism Made Luminous

Read "Organism Made Luminous" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The Covid pandemic slowed artistic progress for many musicians. Opportunities to collaborate became scarce; live music in front of an audience blinked out. However, the enterprising players out there found a way. File sharing and solo projects blossomed, and these—along with the relative affordability of home studio set ups—had an invigorating effect on musical creativity. If you cannot go out and play to an audience, you might as well stay home and create. But for multiple instrumentalist (primarily ...

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Collin Sherman: Suitable Benchmarks of Reform

Read "Suitable Benchmarks of Reform" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Multi-reedist Colin Sherman's thirteenth album, Suitable Benchmarks Of Reform, was made from the same template from which his previous twelve releases came into being—recording alone in his New York City apartment, recording the individual parts then layering each onto the next to make an ensemble sound. This, in the time of the arrival of the Covid virus, has become a more common practice; it is just that Sherman got a head start on the go-it-alone process. Call it ...

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Collin Sherman: Arc of a Slow Decline

Read "Arc of a Slow Decline" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Music is typically a collaborative affair. A given number of players comes together and each takes a part in the shaping of a particular sound. Teamwork is the word. But sometimes a musician just has to go it alone and--in this technological age that allows such things--the recording then collaging and layering of sounds creates an ensemble work. Music lovers of a certain age may remember Paul McCartney's McCartney (Apple, 1970) as a groundbreaker in this style of expression.

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String Planes

Ex-tol Recordings
2024

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Inhabiting the Other

Self Produced
2023

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Suitable Benchmarks...

Ex-tol Recordings
2022

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Organism Made Luminous

Ex-tol Recordings
2022

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Arc of a Slow Decline

Extol Recordings
2020

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Liberties and Delights

Extol Recordings
2019

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