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- Summary: The second full-length release from Virginia artist JJJJJerome Ellis features guest appearances by Haruna Lee, James Harrison Monaco, Ronald Peet, and S T A R R (busby).
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- Record Label: Shelter Press
- Genre(s): Jazz, Improvisation
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Nov 17, 2025What you’ll know after listening to Vesper Sparrow, is an option for the album of the year.
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The WireNov 17, 2025Their second album Vesper Sparrow explores the arrhythmic and atonal multilayered textures that underpin Ellis's soaring contemporary jazz saxophone. .... The closing "Evensong Part 4" is a celebration of disconnected, cycling, melodic instrumental chants, layered into a richly joyous texture, with a Sowetan jazz feel.
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Nov 17, 2025There is poetry in silence, and with Vesper Sparrow, Ellis allows us to lean in and hear it.
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Dec 10, 2025Vesper Sparrow, Ellis’ follow-up, is more focused but just as deep, a prose poem rather than a dissertation.
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Dec 11, 2025The two lengthy "Sparrow" pieces in the middle of the album are patient meditations that break away from the busier pace of the "Evensong"s. .... The fourth and final part of "Evensong" is earthy and joyous, sounding like a roomful of musicians dancing together and celebrating life, though it appears to be created by a multi-tracked Ellis alone. Ellis' work is perpetually filled with hope, always finding a way through.
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Nov 17, 2025A soft, radical celebration of deeply attuned listening, Vesper Sparrow ends by encouraging you to hear it all again, differently: “What new sounds already live in the one sound?”