18 Feb

[ February the 21st, 2025 release via Chill Tone: Noah Preminger – Ballads ]

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Out February 21, 2025, via Chill Tone,

Noah Preminger‘s Ballads feature the daring saxophonist luxuriating in beauty for beauty’s sake with pianist Julian Shore, bassist Kim Cass and drummer Allan Mednard.

“[Preminger] plays with not just chops and composure, but already a distinct voice: His approach privileges mood and reflectiveness, favouring weaving lines that can be complex but are also concise, without a trace of over-playing or bravado.” – Siddhartha Miller, Boston Globe

“Mr. Preminger designs a different kind of sound for each note, an individual destiny and story.” – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

01 Sep

[ September 6th, 2024 release on Pyroclastic Records: Patricia Brennan – Breaking Stretch ]

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The Breaking Stretch, Patricia Brennan‘s 3rd LP recording, comes in the format of 7 – tet. Due out September the 6th, 2024 via Pyroclastic Records, features Jon Irabagon, Mark Shim, Adam O’Farrill, Kim Cass, Marcus Gilmore and Mauricio Herrera.

“The jazz world can get stuck in a battle between the head and the heart, but rarely do you find an improviser like Patricia Brennan [whose] music seems to exist in a realm outside the body, but stays loaded with feeling.” – Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

“Brennan supplements her dazzling technique with two-handed independence and unexpected tonal shifts courtesy of judicious use of electronics.” – John Sharpe, The New York City Jazz Record

With each new release in her still-burgeoning career, the vision of vibraphonist/marimbist/composer Patricia Brennan has grown exponentially in both scale and scope. From the nucleus of her acclaimed solo debut Maquishti she formed a singular quartet for her venturesome follow-up, More Touch, hailed as “scarily good” by All About Jazz.

13 Nov

[ November the 18th, 2022 release on Pyroclastic Records: Patricia Brennan – More Touch ]

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More Touch, the powerful new album by visionary vibraphonist, marimbist and composer Patricia Brennan will be out November 18 via Pyroclastic Records. Joining Brennan are her wholly unique quartet with bassist Kim Cass, drummer Marcus Gilmore and percussionist Mauricio Herrera.

“Moving way outside the standard language of jazz vibraphone, Patricia Brennan has created something like a landscape of vapor, full of wandering melodies lost in the fog.” – Giovanni Russonello, citing Maquishti among the New York Times Best Jazz Albums of 2021

“You could say that Brennan drags the vibraphone into the 21st century, but her record suggests that mallet based percussion was always ripe for exploration.”
– Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork

25 Mar

[ April the 2nd, 2021 release via Dry Bridge Records: Naoh Preminger & Kim Cass – Thunda ]

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release date: 02.04.2021 via Dry Bridge Records

When lighting strikes, thunder follows. Such was the electrifying energy when longtime friends and colleagues Noah Preminger and Kim Cass collaborated during the second half of 2020, one of the most trying and unusual years on record. The result is THUNDA, featuring ten entirely original tracks by award-winning saxophonist Preminger and acclaimed bassist Cass.