Artist: Naomi McCarroll-Butler
Songs: Chrysalis [two sections]*
Recorded at Toronto Jazz Festival, [corporate brand name] Main Stage – [corporate brand name] Grove, July 2, 2022.
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - Chrysalis [section 4]
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - Chrysalis [section 10]
The local jazz festival doesn't tend to get a tonne of favourable glances from this direction, but they should be praised when they do something cool and ambitious. Named as the inaugural "Jazz Festival Immersive Artist-in-Residence", Naomi McCarroll-Butler was given some resources to put together a programme of new work to present at the festival, which emerged as Chrysalis, "a project born out of my first years of transitioning: songs of hope for holding on, cries of joy and grief for the love of a suffering community, trance tapestries of woven sound accompanying the alignment of the physical body with the luminant body."
This live presentation (played in the pleasant Festival zone in the Victoria College quad) saw McCarroll-Butler backed by a dozen musicians, segueing from spiritual jazz blastoffs to modern compositional latticeworks — and including some sounds on DIY microtonal pipes along the way, as well as plenty individual spotlights for the members of the group. The band sounded lush and lively (despite playing with a fairly minimal soundcheck) and one can hope that this music gets a chance to live on beyond this performance.
The ensemble at this show was:
- Anh Phung: flutes
- Kae Murphy: trumpet, sousaphone
- Nebyu Yohannes: trombone
- Colin Fisher: tenor saxophone, drums
- Naomi McCarroll-Butler: alto saxophone, bass clarinet
- Aysel Taghi-Zada: violin
- Aline Homzy: violin
- Amahl Arulanandam: cello
- Adrian Russouw: double bass
- Roa Lee: gayageum
- Yang Chen: percussion, tubulum
- Racha Moukalled: piano
- Stefan Hegerat: drums, percussion
* I'm not sure if the individual pieces within the suite have separate titles or noy; please leave a comment if you have info!
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