Christine Jensen

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Tidal Currents: East Meets West

by Jack Bowers
February 26, 2024

When it comes to appraising contemporary big bands, Canada's Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is on equal footing with the best of them. For its seventh album, Tidal Currents, the WJO has engaged two of that country's leading jazz composers, Jill Townsend and Christine Jensen, to present in musical terms impressions of places that have a special meaning to them, in particular the bodies of water that inspired them in their younger years and up to this point in time.

Christine Jensen, Sonny Clark, Nina Simone and Others

by Jerome Wilson
February 7, 2024

This episode, as usual, goes all over the jazz landscape with current names like Christine Jensen and Marius Neset as well as classic figures of the past such as Sonny Clark and Nina Simone. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Coleman Hawkins “Sih-Sah" from 1947-1950 (Classics) 00:58 Sonny Clark “Cool Struttin'" from Cool Struttin' (Blue Note) 4:09 Host Speaks ...

Christine Jensen: Day Moon

by Pierre Giroux
June 16, 2023

Christine Jensen has been described by jazz writer Mark Miller of The Globe and Mail as “one of the most important Canadian composers of her generation." Jensen grew up in Nanaimo, British Columbia with the likes of tenor saxophonist Phil Dwyer and pianist & vocalist Diana Krall but is now based in Montreal, Quebec. She originally went to that city to attend McGill University from which she received her first degree in jazz performance in 1994 and, subsequently, a Masters ...

CODE Quartet: Genealogy

by Friedrich Kunzmann
May 6, 2021

Chordless or not, quartets tend to find a way around the necessity of vertical simultaneousness to create significant harmonies. With the Montreal-based Code Quartet it's the former variety of instrumentation, combining a vital rhythm section of drum and bass with two horns, much like Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet or its logical continuation in the group Old and New Dreams. The music of Genealogy, made up almost exclusively of originals--hold the traditional “O Sacred head, Now Wounded," harmonized by Johann Sebastian ...

Ingrid and Christine Jensen: Infinitude

by John Kelman
January 20, 2017

While they've often recorded together over the years--from the collective Nordic Connect quintet and trumpeter Ingrid Jensen's early albums including Now as Then (Justin Time, 2003), to many of saxophonist Christine's recordings, from her two much-lauded Jazz Orchestra albums (most recently Habitat (Justin Time, 2014)) to earlier, small group dates including Look Left (Effendi, 2006)--the two Jensen sisters (separated by four years) have never recorded an album collaboratively, with both names sharing the marquee equally...until now. While sharing has never ...

Christine Jensen: Infinitude

by Roger Farbey
October 31, 2016

On paper and with this line-up you might be forgiven for regarding this as a new version of the Brecker Brothers with the two West Canadian Ingrid Jensen and Montreal-based sister Christine taking the roles respectively of Randy Brecker and the sorely missed Michael. But this would be a mistake. The Jensens have carved out their own distinct sound and having worked in big band and smaller ensembles with such luminaries as Clark Terry, Maria Schneider and Terri Lyne Carrington, ...

Christine Jensen, Maggi Olin: Transatlantic Conversations: 11 Piece Band Live

by Angelo Leonardi
October 26, 2016

La sassofonista Christine Jensen, sorella della nota trombettista Ingrid, condivide con la pianista svedese Maggi Olin la guida di questo progetto orchestrale comprendente dieci strumentisti, più la cantante Sofie Norling. La registrazione è stata effettuata live al Palladiun di Malmö, in Svezia nel dicembre 2013 ed è uscita tardivamente alla fine dello scorso anno. Il disco è un'ulteriore testimonianza del nuovo interesse orchestrale nel jazz di questi anni. Maggi e Christine sono alla prima esperienza come bandleader ma il loro ...

Eastman School of Music Appoints Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media

Source: Michael Ricci
September 5, 2022

The Eastman School of Music has recently announced Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media. Saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen has been described as “an original voice on the international jazz scene… [and] one of Canada’s most compelling composers,” by Mark Miller of the Globe and Mail. Christine will make the move from Montreal to Rochester, joining nine other new full-time faculty at Eastman. “I am excited to be working, teaching, and learning with colleagues and students ...
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Christine Jensen - Treelines (Justin Time Records, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
May 31, 2011

Composer and arranger Christine Jensen (Jazz Session interview) has assembled an eighteen musician big band to realize her musical ideas on this well done large ensemble album.

The music is deeply textured and exists in a multi-layered state emphasizing certain characters in the music especially trumpeter Ingrid Jensen while keeping the music focused on the ensemble as a whole. “Arbutus" has the group together as a unit with their shine building to an interior crescendo, before throttling back to a ...
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The Jazz Session #227: Christine Jensen

Source: AAJ Staff
December 27, 2010

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The Jazz Session: Christine Jensen

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2007

On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen. Based in Montreal, Jensen has recorded three albums. Her most recent project is Look Left (Effendi, 2006), the result of a half-year spent studying and writing in Paris. The Globe and Mail called Jensen “one of the most important Canadian composers of her generation."

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Christine Jensen 4tet @ the Top O' the Senator

Source: All About Jazz
October 5, 2004

CHRISTINE JENSEN QUARTET @ the Top O' The Senator in Toronto 249 Victoria Street Reservations and Information: 416-364-7517 October 6th, 7th and 10th, doors open at 8pm, 1st set at 8:30pm. October 8th and 9th, doors open at 8:30pm, first set at 9:30pm.

Montreal- based Christine Jensen will be featuring her quartet for five nights at Toronto's Top O' The Senator as part of her cross-Canada Fall Tour. She is accompanied by ...
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