Jenny Scheinman’s All Species Parade

*Featuring Carmen Staaf (piano), Tony Scherr (bass) and Kenny Wollesen (drums) and guitar

 * replacements may sometimes need to be made subject to availability 

Jenny Scheinman, acclaimed violinist and composer, a stalwart of the New York jazz and creative music scenes, presents music from her newest album All Species Parade, an epic double-album celebrating the Pacific Northwest wilderness, where Scheinman was raised.

She spent 13 years on the NYC downtown music scene, leading both her own bands, as well as working alongside artists ranging from Jason Moran to Brian Blade, Lucinda Williams to Lou Reed, among numerous others. The New York Times praised her “distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.”

Upon moving back to the Pacific Northwest, Scheinman was reawakened to the extraordinary biodiversity of the region known as “The Lost Coast,” where she was raised, a stretch of mud-slide-and earthquake-prone coastline cut off from the main thoroughfares. This would ultimately inspire her to write All Species Parade, an epic and sprawling double album which boasts an A-list ensemble, featuring guitarists Bill Frisell, Julian Lage and Nels Cline, pianist Carmen Staaf, bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Though the album does evoke a sense of pastoral wonder, it also strives to capture in Jenny’s words, “a charged relationship to nature, a feeling of being part of something bigger than ourselves, powerful, and fragile, and constantly changing. Something alive. With All Species Parade, I set out to musically reflect that experience of awe.” We offer this in live concert.

“Scheinman [has] a distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified … by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.” The New York Times

"…when [Scheinman] cocks her fiddle to her chin, draws back her bow, and starts shredding along with her excellent bandmates the result is beautiful havoc unleashed." - New York Magazine

Biographies:

• Jenny Scheinman (short bio)

Tech:

• Tech Rider

• Stage Plot

Press:

• CD review, All Music

• CD review, Stereophile

• CD review, The Absolute Sound

“Scheinman [is] a meticulous interpreter of emotion and a composer of cinematic vision and scope.” Downbeat

Listen to All Species Parade:

"Playfully inventive, deeply soulful, and frighteningly virtuosic, Scheinman’s latest stellar release, All Species Parade, has assembled a sympathetic and equally adept group of musicians to pay homage to the natural wonders of her native Humboldt County, California.” Musically Speaking