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Jess Gillam - Time
Jess Gillam (saxophone), Jess Gillam Ensemble
Thoughtfully constructed and stylistically wide-ranging, the album opens with Meredith Monk’s miniature, poignant Early Morning Melody, followed by Dappled Light, a sonorous, rippling new work...
Jess Gillam - Time
Jess Gillam (saxophone), Jess Gillam Ensemble
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Thoughtfully constructed and stylistically wide-ranging, the album opens with Meredith Monk’s miniature, poignant Early Morning Melody, followed by Dappled Light, a sonorous, rippling new work...
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- Commissions from pianist Luke Howard and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory.
- Including tracks from Max Richter, Björk, Anna Meredith, Philip Glass, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, James Blake.
- These tracks were refined in the studio collaboratively with the Jess Gillam Ensemble and many of the composers/arrangers themselves.
- Experimentation with sounds, with instruments such as Glass Harmonica, Bass Synth, Fender Rhodes piano and Bass Guitar woven into some of the arrangements.
- ‘Where the Bee Dances’ was recorded at Abbey Road with the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon.
Contents and tracklist
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone)
- Recorded: 2020-02-19
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano), Elsa Bradley (marimba), Laurie Anderson (viola), Gabriella Swallow (cello), Sam Becker (double bass)
- Jess Gillam Ensemble
- Recorded: 2020-02-19
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), Gabriella Swallow (cello), Laurie Anderson (viola), Roberts Balanas (violin), Leif Kaner-Lidström (rhodes), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Jess Gillam Ensemble
- Recorded: 2020-02-19
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), Sam Becker (double bass), Matthew Sharp (cello), Laurie Anderson (viola), Michael Jones (violin), Roberts Balanas (violin), Elsa Bradley (marimba), Elsa Bradley (vibraphone)
- Jess Gillam Ensemble
- Recorded: 2020-02-20
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), Sam Wilson (double bass), Sam Becker (double bass), Gabriella Swallow (cello), Matthew Sharp (cello), Alistair Vennart (viola), Oscar Holch (viola), Michael Jones (violin), Roberts Balanas (violin), Elsa Bradley (marimba), Elsa Bradley (vibraphone)
- Jess Gillam Ensemble
- Recorded: 2020-02-21
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone)
- Aurora Orchestra
- Nicholas Collon
- Recorded: 2020-02-25
- Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (alto saxophone), Sam Becker (synth bass), Gabriella Swallow (cello), Laurie Anderson (viola), Michael Jones (violin), Roberts Balanas (violin), Elsa Bradley (marimba)
- Jess Gillam Ensemble
- Recorded: 2020-02-19
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), John Metcalfe (ambient percussion), Sam Becker (double bass), Gabriella Swallow (cello), Matthew Sharp (cello), Alistair Vennart (viola), Oscar Holch (viola), Michael Jones (violin), Roberts Balanas (violin), Ben Dawson (piano)
- Jess Gillam
- Recorded: 2020-02-21
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam Ensemble, Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), Gabriella Swallow (cello), Matthew Sharp (cello), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Laurie Anderson (viola), Michael Jones (violin), Roberts Balanas (violin)
- Recorded: 2020-02-20
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone)
- Recorded: 2020-02-21
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), Lysandre Ménard (piano), Sam Becker (double bass), Rowena Calvert (cello), Oscar Holch (viola)
- Jess Gillam Ensemble
- Recorded: 2019-09-21
- Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 3, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), Sam Becker (double bass), Matthew Sharp (cello), Laurie Anderson (viola), Michael Jones (violin), Roberts Balanas (violin), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano), Elsa Bradley (glockenspiel), Elsa Bradley (marimba), Elsa Bradley (vibraphone)
- Jess Gillam Ensemble
- Recorded: 2020-02-20
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
- Jess Gillam (soprano saxophone), Sam Becker (double bass), Matthew Sharp (cello), Laurie Anderson (viola), Michael Jones (violin), Roberts Balanas (violin), Olivia Jageurs (harp), Elsa Bradley (vibraphone), Alasdair Malloy (glass harmonica)
- Jess Gillam Ensemble
- Recorded: 2020-02-20
- Recording Venue: Rak Studio 1, London
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Episode 5: Time & Place with Jess Gillam
Saxophonist Jess Gillam talks about the music on her new album Time and how moving from rural Cumbria to London, and the various projects she was involved in during lockdown have shaped her music over the past year.
Awards and reviews
15th October 2020
Thoughtfully constructed and stylistically wide-ranging, the album opens with Meredith Monk’s miniature, poignant Early Morning Melody, followed by Dappled Light, a sonorous, rippling new work by Luke Howard...Gillam, characterful and technically in command, is at her expressive best in Philip Glass’s short solo, Melody for Saxophone No 10. Finally Brian Eno’s Emerald and Stone makes a shadowy, dreamy ending.
