Jan Mulder and the Jazz Winds Chamber Jazz Ensemble

Jan Mulder and the Jazz Winds Chamber Jazz Ensemble: Soundscapes

by Jim Olin
July 25, 2016

It opens with crackling fire, a ferocious roar of Mother Nature. Against the cookie-cutter atmosphere of much contemporary jazz, “The Thunderstorm" is a startling anomaly; jazz songs don't usually open to bolts of electricity. But straying from the norm is at the heart of Soundscapes, the new album from Jan Mulder and the Jazz Winds Chamber Jazz Ensemble. It's a concept album -the tracks are labeled as suites -without a straightforward narrative yet tell a story in images of the ...