Jenny Scheinman, acclaimed violinist and composer, a stalwart of the New York jazz and creative music scenes, presents music from her newest album All Species Parade, an epic double-album celebrating the Pacific Northwest wilderness, where Scheinman was raised.

Jenny Scheinman is an acclaimed violinist and composer who spent 13 years on the NYC downtown music scene, leading both her own bands, as well as working alongside artists ranging from Jason Moran to Brian Blade, Lucinda Williams to Lou Reed, among numerous others. The New York Times praised her “distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.” Upon moving back to the Pacific Northwest, Scheinman was reawakened to the extraordinary biodiversity of the region known as “The Lost Coast,” where she was raised, a stretch of mud-slide- and earthquake-prone coastline cut off from the main thoroughfares. This would ultimately inspire Scheinman to write All Species Parade, an epic and sprawling double album with an A-list ensemble, featuring guitarists Bill Frisell, Julian Lage and Nels Cline, pianist Carmen Staaf, bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Though the album does evoke a sense of pastoral wonder, it also strives to capture in Jenny’s words, “a charged relationship to nature, a feeling of being part of something bigger than ourselves, powerful, and fragile, and constantly changing. Something alive. With All Species Parade, I set out to musically reflect that experience of awe.”

JENNY SCHEINMAN

In addition to her extensive work in jazz and improvised music with Jason Moran, Brian Blade, Ron Miles and Allison Miller and many more, Jenny Scheinman has toured and recorded with songwriting legends such as Lucinda Williams, Bruce Cockburn, Robbie Fulks, Rodney Crowell, Lou Reed, Ani DiFranco and Joni Mitchell. She is featured on the original cast recording of Anais Mitchell’s hit musical Hadestown, and has written several feature length movie scores, including the forthcoming Avenue Of The Giants. In March 2015 she premiered a multimedia performance at Duke University entitled Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait, which she continues to present in theaters around the country. On October 11 she will release her eleventh studio album All Species Parade as an epic double-vinyl celebration of wild biodiversity, featuring lifelong cohorts Carmen Staaf, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen and the extraordinary guitarists Bill Frisell, Julian Lage and Nels Cline. 

PRESS QUOTES

“Scheinman [is] a meticulous interpreter of emotion and a composer of cinematic vision and scope.” – DownBeat

“Jenny Scheinman leads an electrifying group of musicians…there is an emotional element to her playing that makes her music deeply satisfying.” – Wall Street Journal

“…when [Scheinman] cocks her fiddle to her chin, draws back her bow, and starts shredding along with her excellent bandmates the result is beautiful havoc unleashed.” – New York Magazine

“Scheinman [has] a distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified … by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues.” – The New York Times

“Protean musician Jenny Scheinman plays all the positions: She’s a stellar violinist, a keen improviser, a sharp composer, and an appealing singer.” – Time Out NY

“There is a simple, quiet joy to this music. The honesty and passion with which it is played is infectious.” – Huffington Post