A Place for Jazz- Your Capital Region Community Jazz venue presents ARTEMIS

ARTEMIS a powerful ensemble of modern jazz masters, founded in 2017 by pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, establishes their prowess both as individuals and as a collective…a supergroup.” The band won “Jazz Group of the Year” in the 88th Downbeat Readers’ Poll. Each musician is a bandleader and composer, and their repertoire encompasses inspired arrangements of original and classic material. ARTEMIS has performed across the globe at such major venues as Carnegie Hall, the Newport Jazz Festival, Saratoga Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Chicago Symphony Hall, and many more. Pianist Renee Rosnes surrounds herself with musicians of the highest level. She thinks big when inviting guests to perfectly complement and enhance the results of her projects. To date, Rosnes has released a series of 18 albums as a leader, six of which have garnered Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy. In 2003 she earned SOCAN’s (Society of Canadian Composers) Composer of the Year award. Aside from leading her own bands, Rosnes is currently a member of bassist Ron Carter’s Quartet and often performs in a duo project with her husband, another wonderful pianist, Bill Charlap. A review from the Boston Globe sums up her place in the spectrum quite clearly: “Rosnes has carved out for herself a reputation as one of jazz’s new bright lights. She has impressed veterans of the bebop and free jazz wars with a crisp, uncluttered approach to improvisation that respects, but doesn’t genuflect to, the music of the past.” Ingrid Jensen has been hailed as one of the most gifted trumpeters of her generation. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1989, she went on to record three highly acclaimed CDs for the ENJA record label and then settled in New York City, where she joined the jazz orchestras of Maria Schneider (1994-2012) and Darcy James Argue (2002-present). More recently, Ingrid has performed with the Grammy-winning Terri-Lynne Carrington’s Mosaic Project and Helen Sung’s Sung with Words. She has performed or recorded on dozens of projects including work with Clark Terry, Esperanza Spalding, Ethan Iverson, Karin Allyson, Rufus Reid, Ellen Rowe, Dianne Reeves, Geoff Keezer, DIVA, Virginia Mayhew, British R&B artist Corrine Bailey Rae (on Saturday Night Live), and Sarah McLachlan. Jensen was chosen as the 2019 recipient of the Jazz Journalists Trumpeter-of-the-Year award. Saxophonist Nicole Glover has established herself as a rising star and a musician in great demand. Her most recent recording as a leader is Strange Lands (Savant), with the venerable pianist George Cables. She is currently a member of a quintet led by bassist Christian McBride, and performs often with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In August 2023, she toured Australia with JLCO, performing Marsalis’ symphonic work “All Rise” with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with Kenny Washington, Dee Dee Bridgewater, vibraphonist Joel Ross, bassists Reggie Workman, Harish Raghavan, Ben Wolfe, and Gene Perla, and pianists Bill Charlap, Geoffrey Keezer, Luis Perdomo, and George Colligan, among many others. Glover is also featured on Esperanza Spalding’s Radio Music Society, and Aaron Diehl and The Knights’ album Zodiac Suite, which has been nominated for a 2024 Grammy Award for “Best Classical Compendium.” Bassist Noriko Ueda studied jazz composition at Berklee College of Music on a scholarship. She has appeared at significant jazz venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, the Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl, Blue Note, and Birdland, with artists such as Frank Wess, Ann Hampton Callaway, Kenny Barron, DIVA, Makoto Ozone and many others. She leads a trio, quartet, and full jazz orchestra and is the winner of the 2002 BMI Foundation’s Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize for her original big band piece “Castle in the North.” Drummer and composer Allison Miller has garnered recognition from the public, and “Best Jazz Drummer” from JazzTimes. She has played and recorded with Ani DiFranco, Brandi Carlile and Natalie Merchant to Marty Ehrlich, Ben Allison, Virginia Mayhew and Dr. Lonnie Smith. A three-time Jazz Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, she also leads her own inventive groups and has released ten albums as a leader. Nate Chinen, writer for the NY Times, claims Allison Miller is “one of our most exacting and exhilarating drummers now working in the jazz tradition — as well as a composer who truly understands the assignment.”

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