Nicole Mitchell / Black Earth Strings - RenegadesNicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings (BES), rides at the forefront of jazz, new music and creative improvisation. Mitchell's "rough and edgy" aesthetic rebels from the flowery sweet flute and string stereotype the runs rampant in jazz, which makes Renegades an appropriate title for the project. On Renegades, Mitchell's compositions bring African rhythms, contemporary sounds and swinging improvisation to a chamber music setting. Mitchell's BES concept

direct and creative way to communicate with people of different cultures and languages

one of Giovanni Simone Mayr's most successful operas

Wind & Fire) label Kalimba Music

The Goldberg Variations

experimental and free improvised vocabulary with an ever expanding set of references ranging from the popular to the esoteric

You Could Be at the Beach Right Now

Toots Thielemans

the album title serves as a wink to the candor that was infused in her songwriting process

Surrey and Crestview recordings have been unavailable in any form since the '60s

I feel that the album certainly has the potential to both haunt and elate in equal measure"

Saxophonist and playboy bandleader Charlie Barnet led one of the most swinging of the big bands during the 1930s and '40s

our view of the "small" forms of baroque music-making gradually changed