Lastly, the album was included in North Star Sounds' 2024 Year in Review back in January, counting it as one of their favorite albums of the year alongside the likes of the Tomeka Reid Quartet and Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers!

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From JazzWord:

"Finely crafted without the need for raucous passages, McNeill and company have created striking chamber improv and one created far from major Jazz centres."

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From All About Jazz:

"Over a decade and a half McNeill has matured as an artist without losing his sense of adventure or his explorative spirit. 4 stars"

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See also Ian Patterson's reflection in @allaboutjazz.bsky.social:

www.allaboutjazz.com/remembering-...

In her final years, Susan would close her sets with an arrangement of exiled Spanish cellist Pablo Casals’s “A Song with the Birds,” which she would dedicate to refugees across the world.

You can see one such performance here:
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It was one of our greatest honors as a label to release Michael McNeill's Barcode Poetry, a record on which Susan played. Susan's performance on that album was adventurous and beautiful. Our thoughts are with Michael, Shelly, and Dave, who are mourning the loss of their friend and bandmate.

Liz Slagus is an artist, curator, educator, writer, and provocateur. She has developed programs for EMPAC, Eyebeam, and NY Hall of Science.

The Sex Ed Bakeshop is her latest tool for engaging the public in conversations about what holistic sexual health is and should look like. 4/4

Megan performs as a soloist, improviser, chamber musician, and orchestral musician with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Wooden Cities, Null Point, Senso di Voce, and The Evolution of the Arm. 3/4

Her piece can be heard here:

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Megan contributed an oboe piece, "One, Two, One" inspired by a poem by Refaat Alareer.

Liz contributed the poem, "More, for Palestine".

Both are introspective reflections, examining who one is in the face of cruelty, and what one can do w/their resources, identities, and body in response. 2/4