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Brandee Younger
It’s well after midnight in the studios of KBOO radio in Portland, Ore., and harpist Brandee Younger is gamely answering questions from host Daniel Flessas. At one point, Flessas remarks that whenever there’s a need for a harp, it seems Younger gets the call. “That’s about right,” the 32-year-old musician replies with a laugh. It’s not much of an exaggeration for an artist who, in addition to leading her own groups, has performed with Jack DeJohnette and Charlie Haden and recorded with such pop/R&B superstars as John Legend, Common and Drake.
Younger was in town to help the PDX Jazz Festival pay tribute to John and Alice Coltrane, part of the fest’s two-week series of concerts and events in February. Saluting the former has been de rigueur in jazz programming, the latter much less so. For her part, Younger has been paying tribute to Alice Coltrane almost since she started on her instrument as a tween, studying classical music on Long Island.
On Feb. 27, at the Newmark Theatre downtown, she performed as part of a concert of Alice’s music, directed by Ravi Coltrane and also featuring Pharoah Sanders, Geri Allen, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille and local tambura player Michael Stirling. The following a
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Soul Awakening, the fourth leader LP from Hempstead, NY harpist Brandee Younger, is a revelation in creative jazz and arguably the best album the genre had to offer in 2019.
Working with producer/bassist Dezron Douglas, the pair balance soulful and spiritual with perfect physics in collaboration with a core ensemble rounded out by drummer EJ Strickland, saxophonists Stacy Dillard and Chelsea Baratz and such esteemed guests as tenor giant Ravi Coltrane, trumpteters Sean Jones and Freddie Hendrix, singer Niia, saxophonist Antoine Roney and drummer Chris Beck.
She wears her influences on her wrist throughout Soul Awakening with gracious and exploring versions of Dorothy Ashby’s “Games” and Alice Coltrane’s “Blue Nile” as well as a lovely reading of the Marvin Gaye ballad “Save the Children.” But the original material here holds up just as strongly as the covers, especially the strutting Douglas-composd opener “Soulris” and “Love’s Prayer,” a haunting conversation between Younger and Ravi Coltrane that mirrors the interplay between his dad and stepmom, whom this composition is dedicated.
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