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Dark Wood Explorations - Jazz On Strings (MP3 album)
8 MP3 Songs in this album (57:13) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Modern Creative Jazz, JAZZ: Crossover Jazz
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Two very different bassists, Joe Fonda and Tatsu Aoki, each pairs with a different member of the string family to create sonic experiences that stress sonority and explore harmonics. Fonda meets violist Judith Insell on equal terms for the uniquely beautiful Dark Wood Explorations while Aoki is the lone supporting player in violinist Jonathan Chen’s Orchestra. Of all the orchestral string instruments the viola has had the least affinity for jazz. Barely bigger than a violin, it is tuned five notes lower and as a result sacrifices the violin’s brightness. In Insell’s capable hands throughout Dark Wood Explorations, however, this is more than made up for by a luxuriously warm tone custom-made to blend with Fonda’s deeply resonant bass. Insell contributes four tunes and Fonda two as the pair take turns providing the rhythm for the other’s free-formish melodic statements and Trane’s India and Bill Evans’ Very Early are painted with deep textural strokes. At times, Insell can swing in an almost Stuff Smith way as she demonstrates on the surprisingly upbeat closer Voo La La Blues. But for the most part this release meets its stated aim as moody harmonics abound and are most intriguing when the two play in tandem.
Judith Insell, a New York native, has been an active member of the New York jazz scene since the mid nineties. Ms. Insell is on a personal mission: spreading the word that “the Viola can play any style of music!” Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Antonio Hart, and Miguel Zenon are just a few of the many jazz greats with whom Ms. Insell has had the pleasure of performing and recording. She has recently been performing throughout the eastern United States with the chamber jazz string group Sojourner. As a founding member of Sojourner, Ms. Insell has not only explored self expression through improvisation, she has also ventured into the realm of composition with the title track of the group’s new CD “Journey” and arranging such standards as Thelonious Monk’s I Mean You.
Her debut CD, Dark Wood Explorations is a duo project with acclaimed jazz bassist Joe Fonda.
Ms. Insell has also had an active career on the “pop” music scene performing and recording with artists Beyonce Knowles, India. Arie, Jessica Simpson, and Joe. As a member of the “Soldier String Quartet,” she was on an extensive world tour with rock legend John Cale throughout the nineties.
Judith attended the Manhattan School of Music where she was classically trained: receiving both her Undergraduate and Masters degrees. She has performed with the New Jersey Symphony, the National Chorale Orchestra and is currently a member of the Greenwich Symphony. She has also performed on Broadway in the orchestras for Gypsy, Ms. Saigon, Tommy, Carousel, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.
She is the former Director of the String Program at The Collegiate School, The Juilliard School- MAP Program and The Bloomingdale School of Music and has just completed a 1-year association with "Education Through Music,” as a Teaching Artist.
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