Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra Fea. Christine Jensen at Shorewood Performing Arts Center

SEATTLE WOMEN’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA (SWOJO) proudly presents special guest Christine Jensen and the world premiere of her newest composition Cascadian Fragments on Saturday, May 6, 2017 at the Shorewood Performing Arts Center.

SWOJO is honored to receive a National Endowment for the Arts grant to commission this new work for large jazz ensemble.

Composer and saxophonist Christine Jensen is considered one of the most important Canadian composers of her generation, according to Globe and Mail jazz critic, Mark Miller.

"Jensen writes in three dimensions, with a quiet kind of authority that makes the many elements cohere. Wayne Shorter, Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler come to mind." -Greg Buium of Downbeat Magazine. ...

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SEATTLE WOMEN’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA (SWOJO) proudly presents special guest Christine Jensen and the world premiere of her newest composition Cascadian Fragments on Saturday, May 6, 2017 at the Shorewood Performing Arts Center.

SWOJO is honored to receive a National Endowment for the Arts grant to commission this new work for large jazz ensemble.

Composer and saxophonist Christine Jensen is considered one of the most important Canadian composers of her generation, according to Globe and Mail jazz critic, Mark Miller.

"Jensen writes in three dimensions, with a quiet kind of authority that makes the many elements cohere. Wayne Shorter, Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler come to mind." -Greg Buium of Downbeat Magazine.

Jensen performs and records regularly with her sister Ingrid.  They have toured all over the world from Seattle's Jazz Alley to New York's Museum of Modern Art, from an SS Norway Jazz Cruise to a tour of Japan.

Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra received Juno awards for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year for Habitat (2014) and Treelines (2013).

This will be the first concert led by Jill Townsend, SWOJO’s new Co-Musical Director. Jill is a Canadian composer, band leader and music educator from Vancouver, BC.

Please join SWOJO as we celebrate remarkable women in jazz!

Senior/Earshot $18 Students/Military $10

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