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Mary Halvorson's “Night Shift,“ from her album 'Amaryllis,' performed live at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY, on September 8, 2021. You can hear the album version at Adam O’Farrill: trumpet Jacob Garchik: trombone Patricia Brennan: vibraphone Mary Halvorson: guitar Nick Dunston: bass Tomas Fujiwara: drums Video courtesy of Roulette Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson makes her Nonesuch Records label debut with two albums, Amaryllis and Belladonna. The two suites, which Halvorson describes as “modular and interlocking,” come in a two-LP vinyl set or as two separate CDs and digital albums. Amaryllis is a six-song suite performed by a newly formed sextet of master improvisers; the Mivos string quartet joins for three of the songs, making this the largest ensemble for which Halvorson has written to date. Belladonna is a set of five compositions written for Halvorson on guitar plus the Mivos Quartet, whose parts are through-composed and augmented by Halvorson’s guitar improvisations. #maryhalvorson #amaryllis #brooklyn
