NYC jazz composer and saxophonist Lena Bloch returns to Puffin with her Feathery Quartet to perform A World Without Fear, a program which won the Brooklyn Arts Council’s grant in 2024. The program includes a suite of original compositions about longing for peace and life without fear of the “other,” aggression, war, or loss. The pieces explore war not only as a conventional battle with weapons, but also as an internal state that is motivated by fear and feeds inner prejudice, suspicion and hostility. By weaving together Eastern and Western impressions and cultural influence, Feathery Quartet creates sound poems where East and West embrace....
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NYC jazz composer and saxophonist Lena Bloch returns to Puffin with her Feathery Quartet to perform A World Without Fear, a program which won the Brooklyn Arts Council’s grant in 2024. The program includes a suite of original compositions about longing for peace and life without fear of the “other,” aggression, war, or loss. The pieces explore war not only as a conventional battle with weapons, but also as an internal state that is motivated by fear and feeds inner prejudice, suspicion and hostility. By weaving together Eastern and Western impressions and cultural influence, Feathery Quartet creates sound poems where East and West embrace.
Feathery Quartet–featuring Lena Bloch on saxophone, Russ Lossing on piano, Cameron Brown on bass, and Billy Mintz on drums–draws its inspiration from diverse musical traditions including modern classical music, Middle-Eastern music, Eastern-European music, and post-1960’s jazz.
The name “Feathery” suggests lightness, flexibility, readiness to drift in new directions – like a feather in the wind. Formed in 2014, the quartet has developed a unique sound and only performs original material. The ensemble is immigrant and woman-fronted, and consists of three generations of jazz musicians who have worked with bandleaders such as Paul Motian, Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Joe Lovano, Charles Lloyd, Danny Richmond, and Don Pullen.
“It is music about life, a continuous suite of dances and narratives, the voice of someone telling her and their story, arrestingly and thoughtfully. You cannot ask for more in music.”
– BRIAN MORTON, BBC, JAZZ JOURNAL
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