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Mary Halvorson's “Night Shift,“ from her album 'Amaryllis,' out now on Nonesuch Records: Adam O’Farrill: trumpet Jacob Garchik: trombone Mary Halvorson: guitar Patricia Brennan: vibraphone Nick Dunston: bass Tomas Fujiwara: drums Paintings by DM Stith Video by Robert Edridge-Waks 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 a
