Recording: Paul Newman

Artist: Paul Newman

Song: Expansion

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Jazz and Otherwise Improvised Musics), October 8, 2019.

Paul Newman - Expansion

More focused on the present than the past, it took curator Andrew Furlong somewhat by surprise to realize that his music series in Wenona's basement was celebrating its anniversary — but he had booked a show that was quite worthy of carrying the birthday banner. Recently-returned from a residency at the Banff Centre, saxophonist Paul Newman had worked some of the expansive spaciousness he found here — as well as the deer and skunks and magpies — into the brand-new first section of this piece filled with unrushed long tones and gorgeous harmonics.

[JAOIM will be back at Wenona on Tuesday, December 10th, sharing the night with Furniture Music and playing Cobra under the instruction of Joe Sorbara. Participants will include Mingjia Jessica Chen, Bea Labikova, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Rob Grieve, Ashley Urquhart, Andrew Furlong, Raphael Roter, Joe Sorbara and Alex Fournier.]