On January 12, 2024, Josh Sinton releases the next iteration of his evolutionary process on the baritone saxophone. A unified whole presented in two parts, Couloir & Book of Practitioners Vol. 2 is a double album that further articulates his philosophy that the only difference between musical interpretation and free-form improvisation is one of modality, not perception or artistic intent.
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Dec
[ December 1-18, 2022 – Woodwindist/Composer Josh Sinton Embarks on 10-City Tour ]
Woodwindist/Composer Josh Sinton Embarks on 10-City Tour
December 1-18 in New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois
The tour caps a productive and busy 2022 that saw the release of three critically acclaimed Sinton albums
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Oct
[ November the 28th, 2022 release via Form is Possibility Recordings: Josh Sinton’s Predicate Quartet – 4 Freedoms ]
Available October 28, 2022 via Form is Possibility Recordings (FiP)
Dynamic and compositionally rich, 4 freedoms features Josh Sinton’s Predicate: Sinton, Jonathan Finlayson, Christopher Hoffman and Tom Rainey
Freedom from fear, freedom to be oneself, freedom to love and freedom from advertising
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Aug
[ August the 12th, 2022 release on FiP: Josh Sinton’s Steve Lacy’s Book of Practitioners, Vol. 1 “H” ]
Available August 12, the album showcases six Lacy etudes Sinton has honed in the two decades since studying with Lacy at NEC
4.5 stars “[Sinton and Ideal Bread] embrace the fierce originality and rigor of Lacy’s original music and remake it in an utterly distinctive way.”
– Peter Margasak, DownBeat in a review of Transmit
“Sinton wrings his corpulent instrument for its full range of values: toneless smears; soul-baring swells; chomping, roughed-up blasts.”
– Giovanni Russonello, New York Times
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May
[ June the 3rd, 2022 release via Form is Possibility Recordings: Josh Sinton, Jed Wilson, Tony Falco – Adumbrations ]
Reedist/composer Josh Sinton, pianist Jed Wilson and drummer Tony Falco celebrate their twenty-year friendship with Adumbrations, out June 3, 2022 via Form is Possibility Recordings
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Dec
[ December the 10th,2021 release via Form is Possibility Recordings: Josh Sinton – b ]
release date: 10.12.2021 via Form is Possibility Recordings
Josh Sinton’s remarkable solo baritone saxophone album b. – out December 10, 2021 via Form is Possibility Recordings (FiP) – is already earning critical praise.
“An avant-bending treat…he dances, honks, explores, whimseys, romps, scratches, squeaks, meditates on these nine pieces that journey deep into low tones.” – Dan Ouellette, Jazz and Beyond Intel
“Varied and exciting…Sinton shows that the baritone saxophone can also be an instrument of delicate and beautiful sounds.” – Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts
“One of the most striking baritone saxophonists … he marks the age of 50 with nine baritone statements that show his intellectual and emotional range from laconic to angry.” – Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy
The album took two days to record but thirty years to prepare for. In the world of creative music, solo saxophone records are fairly common. But it is their commonplace nature that gave Sinton pause. “The world has more than enough solo saxophone albums. Of all kinds. It took me a long time to discover what I could offer, what I could put in the public square that wasn’t there already.”
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Oct
[ October 9, 2020 release via FiP recordings: Josh Sinton – “cérémonie/musique” ]
release date: October 9, 2020 via FiP Recordings
“…[the music] sounds like an avant-garde version of early Miles Davis, with slow, spaced-out notes, here played by Sinton over the bitonal underlay of an electric guitar and bass, neither of which are trying to break the sound barrier. It’s music that draws you inward….if you just let yourself go and let it wash over you, it creates a spell that is hard to break..” – Lynn Bayley, Art Music Lounge
“The balance between the more serious and more playful moments is well paced here. A serious listen will unleash several underlying layers of subdued connections. Take your time with this.” – Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
“I hear the freedom of making a chamber sound-object, something that breathes well in a small, closed space. More than a sculpture, I’m thinking of those early twentieth-century paintings that incorporate three- dimensional collages. Images that look naïve exactly because of their freedom, but they occupy their space so perfectly.”
– Giacomo Merega describing cérémonie/musique