Jazz Coalition Series | Sarah Elizabeth Charles "blank Canvas" at The Falcon

"...Genre of one...Charles...is fully in control, and figures to be for a very long time." - DownBeat
"...both technically brilliant and emotionally bold..." - Revive Music

Sarah Elizabeth Charles and her band SCOPE celebrate the upcoming release of their fourth album, Blank Canvas. Championing the choice to start new in the midst of difficult, complex, and beautiful circumstances, Blank Canvas is Charles' most lyrically and musically dynamic release yet.

Featuring SCOPE, her band/team of twelve years, Jesse Elder, Burniss Earl Travis II (Boom Bishop), John Davis, Jordan Peters, Jesse Fischer, and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, this widely anticipated album will be their first in five years and will be released amongst family via Christian Scott's Stretch Music label in partnership with Ropeadope....

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"...Genre of one...Charles...is fully in control, and figures to be for a very long time." - DownBeat
"...both technically brilliant and emotionally bold..." - Revive Music

Sarah Elizabeth Charles and her band SCOPE celebrate the upcoming release of their fourth album, Blank Canvas. Championing the choice to start new in the midst of difficult, complex, and beautiful circumstances, Blank Canvas is Charles' most lyrically and musically dynamic release yet.

Featuring SCOPE, her band/team of twelve years, Jesse Elder, Burniss Earl Travis II (Boom Bishop), John Davis, Jordan Peters, Jesse Fischer, and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, this widely anticipated album will be their first in five years and will be released amongst family via Christian Scott's Stretch Music label in partnership with Ropeadope.

"Impeccable technical prowess providing the base for boldly uninhibited expression, all driving sharply shaped political and cultural views: It’s a combination as rare as it is thrilling, bringing to mind Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln and, over the past half-decade, the neo-soul-meets-jazz fervor of Sarah Elizabeth Charles." - Jazz Times

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