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This year, one of the greatest pianists of improvised music, Marilyn Crispell became the winner of the famous NEA Jazz Masters 2025 award, thus joining the ranks of such jazz wizards as, among others. in Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, Dizzy Gillespie, Sun Ra, Gil Evans, Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Braxton, with whom, by the way, Marilyn spent several years in his second great quartet.

As all of us intrigued by jazz music probably know, the NEA Jazz masters laurel is a great honor and a momentous gesture by the American state to the achievements of artists. We are all the more pleased to rush to announce that Marilyn Crispell’s latest album has been released with us.
It is a studio session realized in November 2023 at Utopia Studios Bearsville in Woodstock together with the excellent drummer Harvey Sorgen.
The album is part of an impressive series of duo sessions recorded in recent decades in the company of such artists as Gerry Hemingway, Hamid Drake, Tyshawn Sorey, Tim Berne, Gary Peacock, Louis Moholo, Tim Berne, Eddie Prevost, among others.