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It would be impossible to try and discover all the possibilities the harp has to offer within the Jazz genre (or Afro-American music in general) without coming across Dorothy Ashby (1932-1986). Ashby was the first musician to implant the harp into the collective imagination, typifying it as Western “salon music” with her bop album The Jazz Harpist (released in 1957). Brandee Younger, a budding harpist herself, is now following in her footsteps. With Brand New Life, she’s released an album that’s as ambitious as it is masterful. Using Dorothy Ashby’s greatest works as inspiration, the harpist creates a programme that skilfully blends a handful of original compositions and selected covers (Michel Legrand's The Windmills of your Mind and Stevie Wonder's It's Magic), achieving symbiosis between her art and her inspirations.
Within an organic quartet composed of herself, Rashaan Carter (double bass), Joel Ross (vibraphone) and Makaya McCraven (drums and session producer), Younger updates Ashby’s take on the instrument with great refinement and skill. She adapts it to her own resolutely modernist language with the same ability with which she sews the threads between classical, jazz, soul and hip-hop. Joined by soul and hip-hop singers Mumu Fresh (Brand New Life) and Meshell Ndegeocello (Dust) and rap composers/producers Peter Rock and 9th Wonder, the harpist develops sophisticated and seductive melodic music. She’s careful to strike a balance between staying faithful to a song’s format whilst allowing room for improvisation and demonstrating the expressive fluidity and rhythmic richness of an instrument that’s finally been freed from the bourgeois shackles of the past. © Stéphane Ollivier/Qobuz
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Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandee Younger, Composer, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dorothy Ashby, Composer - Rashaan Carter, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Joel Ross, Vibraphone, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandee Younger, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Maimouna Youssef, ComposerLyricist - Rashaan Carter, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Drums, Percussion, Production Coordinator, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Mumu Fresh, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Russ Carlyle, ComposerLyricist - Brandee Younger, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rashaan Carter, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Producer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Joseph Caranda, ComposerLyricist - Ivan J Washabaugh, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pete Rock, Drum Programming, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandee Younger, Composer, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dorothy Ashby, Composer - Rashaan Carter, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Joel Ross, Vibraphone, AssociatedPerformer - De'Sean Jones, Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Producer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandee Younger, Composer, Harp, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dorothy Ashby, Composer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Producer - Linda McNease-Younger, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Sharon McNease-Griggs, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandee Younger, Composer, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dorothy Ashby, Composer - Rashaan Carter, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - De'Sean Jones, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Producer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Yuri Popowycz, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandee Younger, Composer, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rashaan Carter, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Joel Ross, Vibraphone, Xylophone, AssociatedPerformer - De'Sean Jones, String Arranger, Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Producer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Yuri Popowycz, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Meshell Ndegeocello, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brandee Younger, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dorothy Ashby, ComposerLyricist - Rashaan Carter, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Drums, Percussion, Production Coordinator, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michel Legrand, Composer - Marilyn Bergman, Author - Alan Bergman, Author - 9th Wonder, Drum Programming, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brandee Younger, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Joel Ross, Xylophone, AssociatedPerformer - De'Sean Jones, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Producer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Junius Paul, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Yuri Popowycz, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stevie Wonder, ComposerLyricist - Kevin Reeves, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brandee Younger, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Vettraino, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Makaya McCraven, Production Coordinator, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
It would be impossible to try and discover all the possibilities the harp has to offer within the Jazz genre (or Afro-American music in general) without coming across Dorothy Ashby (1932-1986). Ashby was the first musician to implant the harp into the collective imagination, typifying it as Western “salon music” with her bop album The Jazz Harpist (released in 1957). Brandee Younger, a budding harpist herself, is now following in her footsteps. With Brand New Life, she’s released an album that’s as ambitious as it is masterful. Using Dorothy Ashby’s greatest works as inspiration, the harpist creates a programme that skilfully blends a handful of original compositions and selected covers (Michel Legrand's The Windmills of your Mind and Stevie Wonder's It's Magic), achieving symbiosis between her art and her inspirations.
Within an organic quartet composed of herself, Rashaan Carter (double bass), Joel Ross (vibraphone) and Makaya McCraven (drums and session producer), Younger updates Ashby’s take on the instrument with great refinement and skill. She adapts it to her own resolutely modernist language with the same ability with which she sews the threads between classical, jazz, soul and hip-hop. Joined by soul and hip-hop singers Mumu Fresh (Brand New Life) and Meshell Ndegeocello (Dust) and rap composers/producers Peter Rock and 9th Wonder, the harpist develops sophisticated and seductive melodic music. She’s careful to strike a balance between staying faithful to a song’s format whilst allowing room for improvisation and demonstrating the expressive fluidity and rhythmic richness of an instrument that’s finally been freed from the bourgeois shackles of the past. © Stéphane Ollivier/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:36:58
- Main artists: Brandee Younger
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Impulse!
- Genre: Jazz
© 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2023 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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