Lena Bloch & Feathery at Scholes Street Studio

The quartet is about four years old and has been presenting original music, composed by the band members. The music is of improvisational nature, the emphasis is put on musical communication, spontaneous compositional decisions, where each member of the group is a soloist and an accompanist at the same time. FEATHERY draws its inspiration from diverse musical traditions: 21st Century New Music, Middle-Eastern, Jewish, Eastern-European, jazz, Western classical music.
“We’re trying to not have any particular arrangements of our compositions,” Lena Bloch insists. “Jazz doesn’t have to be risk free – on the contrary, I think risk is a great factor! Because I trust the feeling, professionalism and experience of these people, risk and challenge only facilitate the result. The less safe we all feel, the better it is for the music.”...

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The quartet is about four years old and has been presenting original music, composed by the band members. The music is of improvisational nature, the emphasis is put on musical communication, spontaneous compositional decisions, where each member of the group is a soloist and an accompanist at the same time. FEATHERY draws its inspiration from diverse musical traditions: 21st Century New Music, Middle-Eastern, Jewish, Eastern-European, jazz, Western classical music.
“We’re trying to not have any particular arrangements of our compositions,” Lena Bloch insists. “Jazz doesn’t have to be risk free – on the contrary, I think risk is a great factor! Because I trust the feeling, professionalism and experience of these people, risk and challenge only facilitate the result. The less safe we all feel, the better it is for the music.”
Feathery released its first album “Heart Knows” in September 2017 on Fresh Sound New Talent. Album received rave reviews worldwide, was listed among top 50 (Jazz Links, Germany-Switzerland), top 100 (NPR Jazz Critics Poll and Tenth Annual International Critics Poll), one of the top jazz releases 2018 (Musica Jazz Magazine, Italy). Feathery was selected to showcase at the 40th Annual National Chamber Music Conference (2018), and was featured in the Winter 2018 issue of Chamber Music Magazine American Ensemble section.
Lena Bloch is an Israeli-American composer and band leader, based in New York City. She has been leading her own chamber groups, performing original music since 1990, in Israel, Europe and the US, including Red Sea Jazz Festival (Israel), Leverkusener Jazz Tage and Ingolstaedter Jazz Tage (Germany), Jazz Lent Maribor (Slovenia), Voronezh Jazz Festival (Russia), Washington Women In Jazz Festival, Vermont Jazz Center Festival, Temple Of The Arts Festival (United States).

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