Founded in 2016 by veteran jazz pianist Renee Rosen as an all-star combo of virtuosos to celebrate International Women’s Day, ARTEMIS has gone well beyond proving the capability of women in a male-dominated field. Fresh off the release of its third album, ARBORESQUE, and a very popular performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk, the multigenerational, multinational group continues to win over new fans with savvy compositions, inspiring improvisations, and a “cliché-free individuality and congenial collective spirit” (The Guardian). Come hear artists at the top of their game for whom breaking down barriers is all in a day’s work of stellar music making.
Throughout its eight-decade history, Blue Note Records has been celebrated as a home for the leading voices in jazz. The label continues that tradition with the release of the self-titled debut from ARTEMIS, a band comprised of six modern jazz masters. Featuring pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, bassist Noriko Ueda, and drummer Allison Miller, ARTEMIS conjures a powerful collective voice from this quintet of visionary bandleaders and composers.
The original band initially assembled at Rosnes’ behest for a European festival tour eight years ago. “I chose musicians whom I respected and wanted to make music with,” the pianist says, “and after performing together, I realized we had a brilliant chemistry. We decided to explore the possibilities of what might develop over time - and that’s how ARTEMIS was born.”
The group is distinctive not only for bringing together five singular artists, each renowned for their own remarkable solo careers; but for its multi-generational and multinational line-up, with members hailing from America, Canada, and Japan.
Despite its relatively brief existence, ARTEMIS has already been featured in Vanity Fair and on NPR’s Jazz Night in America, and has performed on some of the country’s most iconic stages, from Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, SFJAZZ, Chicago Orchestra Hall to the Newport Jazz Festival.
“On a sunny August afternoon in 2018, I was among the thousands of fans attending the Newport Jazz Festival who had their minds blown by ARTEMIS,” says Blue Note President Don Was. “Although each individual member of this supergroup is a bona fide jazz titan, these incredible musicians dwell in the rarefied air of bands whose whole is greater than the sum of its already sublime parts. Their musical conversation is sophisticated, soulful and powerful and their groove runs deep.”
The band’s third album, ARBORESQUE is a superb eight-song set that presents vibrant original compositions by each of the band members as well as Rosnes arrangements of pieces by Wayne Shorter, Burt Bacharach, and Donald Brown. Rosnes says, “Our goal is to make honest music that touches people. We inspire one another and feel passionate about playing together. All that positive energy comes through in our sound and I believe the audience can feel it.”
This is a group of extraordinary women whose combined energies and skills cannot be stifled into the label of an all-star band. Every time they perform, their fluid and inspired communication leads to magical musical events.
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