# New music from Tedeschi Trucks Band, SuperBigmouth, Emma Frank and more … Videos, Sound, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/09/17/new-music-from-tedeschi-trucks-band-superbigmouth-emma-frank-and-more-videos-sound-photos/
- Published: 2019-09-17T16:17:31+01:00
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**New music that falls just outside the jazz sphere, in one way or another.**

**Tedeschi Trucks Band, “High & Mighty”**

Earlier this year, the eponymous band fronted by Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks
released its fourth studio album, Sings. Well received by critics and fans, it radiates
soulful affirmation and blues resilience, tempered only by the understanding that
these songs were clearly built for the stage.

Now Tedeschi Trucks Band is poised to release a four-song EP, High & Mighty, most
of which was recorded during the sessions for _Signs. _(It was previously made available
as a Record Store Day vinyl exclusive.) The EP’s title track, written by Trucks 
and Doyle Bramhall II, was just released with a video consisting of footage from
the band’s run of shows in Tokyo this past spring.

Tedeschi’s searchlight vocals are naturally the core feature of the tune, but Trucks
provides his usual insight on lead guitar, and there’s a lean, Muscle Shoals-ish
arrangement for the horn section. (Listen, too, for some nice improvised flourishes
from trumpeter Ephraim Owens.) The EP is due out on Fantasy Records on Sept. 27 —
the same day that Tedeschi Trucks Band begins a six-night residency at the Beacon
Theater in Manhattan.

**Chris Lightcap’s SuperBigmouth, “Deep River”**

Bassist-composer Chris Lightcap has long had a good thing in Bigmouth, a smart, 
rollicking band with keyboardist Craig Taborn, drummer Gerald Cleaver and two tenor
saxophonists, Chris Cheek and Tony Malaby. Now Lightcap has expanded the roster 
for a group he’s named SuperBigmouth, adding two electric guitarists, Jonathan Goldberger
and Curtis Hasselbring, and a second drummer, Dan Rieser; an album, also titled 
SuperBigmouth, will be released on Pyroclastic Records on Oct. 4.

“Deep River” is the first single from the album, featured here in an exclusive premiere.
As the title implies, this is a tune that harnesses rhythm in layered currents, 
with a melody that wafts and a rhythmic undertow that churns. “I love listening 
to Gerald and Dan’s playing on this,” says Lightcap, “particularly the way they 
evolve over the course of the track and how they feed and play off of each other.”
The solos are by Cheek and Taborn, each commanding and right at home, before the
tune imperceptibly shifts into an Afrobeat zone.

**Emma Frank, “I Thought”**

The songs on _Come Back, _the enchanting fourth album by Emma Frank, don’t show 
many outward jazz affinities; they reside in the literate folk-rockish realm you’d
associate with someone like Laura Marling, or the Beck of _Morning Phase. _But it’s
meaningful that the album prominently features pianist Aaron Parks, whose “Lilac”
is among the album’s few covers (with new lyrics). You can also hear the erudite
restraint in their rapport — backed by bassist Zack Lober and drummer Tommy Crane—
on the opening track, “I Thought.” (Video directed by artist Ayo Tsalithaba.)

Frank is a soft-spoken but surefooted vocalist originally from the Boston area; 
she now resides in Brooklyn after a stretch in Montreal, the home of her current
label, Justin Time. (Perhaps you remember her from an episode of The Checkout this
time last year.) She’s now on tour in Europe, but will be in Cambridge, Mass. on
Oct. 6 and Burlington, Vt. on Oct. 8. For more information.

**J. Pavone String Ensemble, “Hurtle and Hurdle”**

An improvising violist known for her work with Mary Halvorson and Anthony Braxton,
Jessica Pavone has composed music for string quartet, along with many solo pieces.
Her current outlet, the J. Pavone String Ensemble — herself and Joanna Mattrey on
violas, Erica Dicker and Angela Morris on violins — will release its new album, 
Brick and Mortar,_ _on the Birdwatcher label on Oct. 4. This video features “Hurtle
and Hurdle,” the album’s opening track.

Pavone composed “Hurtle and Hurdle” with the movements of nature in mind: oceanic
waves, air currents, cycles both circadian and orbital. The video, directed by Neil‘
cloaca’ Young, responds to that idea with footages of and around the Connecticut
River in Western Mass. The meditative quality of both music and image are intentional,
even as both resist tidy resolution.

**Emmaline, “Effortless”**

The Chicago-based vocalist known as Emmaline had a brush with internet fame last
year, when the Postmodern Jukebox posted [her slinky lounge-jazz version](https://youtu.be/DpBjuGIKKVs)
of a Jessie J pop-R&B smash. Now, at 21, Emmaline is about to release her debut 
EP, _All My Sweetest Dreams_ — a less throwback statement, which she coproduced 
with industry veterans like Seth Abramson and Jason Olaine.

“Effortless,” the latest single from the EP, is an acoustic R&B tune with a you-
done-me-wrong premise. But there are no barbs in Emmaline’s delivery, nor in her
tasteful backing — by guitarist Ryan Mondak, several alumni of Roy Hargrove’s RH
Factor, and a string quartet. (She handled the first violin part herself.) The title
of the track could easily be said to describe the impression it leaves, though Emmaline
and her crew have clearly put in a lot of work to make it so.

**Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance”(
Featuring Sharon Van Etten)**

And now, a bonus pick: The latest material evidence of Jeff Goldblum’s side gig 
as a jazz pianist. This is his cover of an Irving Berlin standard, featuring the
Mildred Snitzer Orchestra and guest vocals by Sharon Van Etten. It’s the first single
from Goldblum’s I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This, which Decca will release on Nov.
1.

Jazz piano is, of course, more of a hobby than a calling for Goldblum — though he
has garnered a lot of applause on the bandstand, especially since releasing _Jeff
Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra-The Capitol Studios Sessions_ last year.
As for Van Etten, she’s responsible for one of this year’s standout indie-rock albums.
Her treatment of the Berlin tune is haunted and direct, a reminder of the foreboding
that lurks in the lyrics. _I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This_ features an array of
other guest singers, including Fiona Apple and Inara George. Apparently two more
cameos, even starrier, have yet to be announced. (Any guesses? I nominate [Bill Murray](https://youtu.be/_lgz4hURj40).)

![Tedeshi Trucks Band](https://i0.wp.com/www.wbgo.org/sites/wbgo/files/styles/medium/
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