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CYCLES SUITE featuring Mike Kaupa (2009/Fleur De Son FDSJ 57994)  $15.00
A 76-minute work commissioned by New York State Council on the Arts, Cycles Suite is intended as a meditation on one’s own life cycle and the important connections with the cycles of others. Jentsch’s complete liner notes.

Cycles Suite Reviews:

"The interesting thing is that he's using avant-garde techniques, but in a traditional framework…”
– Will Friedwald (New York Sun)

“In its scope and detail and eternally recurring inner logic, Cycles Suite may be the Finnegans Wake of big-band jazz. …a moving and elegiac journey through complex emotional terrain.”
– Richard Gehr (from the liner notes)

More Reviews:
Washington City Paper
Wall Street Journal
Hartford Courant (scroll down)
Lucid Culture
Jazz.com
Jordan Richardson
Cadence Magazine
Jazz Inside NY

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Cycles Suite was commissioned by the Individual Artists Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, was made possible in part through the sponsorship of The Field, and was partially developed during a residency at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming.

BROOKLYN SUITE (2007/Fleur De Son FDS 57987)  $15.00
Includes the 45-minute suite for a sixteen-piece jazz ensemble commissioned by American Composers Forum, and two other original tunes. One of the ideas for this project was to take advantage of the opportunity to combine various electric guitar sounds and textures with the large ensemble.

"Brooklyn Suite (is) Chris Jentsch's sublime set of interwoven themes and expansive movements for guitar and orchestra…

In the course of its myriad twists and transformations, Brooklyn Suite breathes with so much more spirit than what we typically designate 'concert music'; without being determinedly programmatic, it evokes the lush and gritty varieties of the borough’s landscape... The seven parts of Jentsch's suite...
flow organically one to the next, generating new motifs,
casting back to earlier motifs, just as Brooklyn itself seems to... 

Jentsch's compositions inspire cinematic reverie while confounding the construction of any single literal plot. His achievement is really too big to accommodate a simple story."  
– Howard Mandel (from the liner notes)

Brooklyn Suite Reviews:

DownBeat Magazine
Alex Henderson, AllMusic (with more sound clips)

Reviews at AllAboutJazz:

Graham L. Flanagan
Mark F. Turner
Jack Bowers (scroll down for review)
Michael P. Gladstone

> More Brooklyn Suite press

> Jentsch’s complete liner notes

Brooklyn Suite was funded in part by the Composer Assistance Program of the American Music Center, and commissioned by the American Composers Forum with Funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

MEDIA EVENT (1998/Blue Schist CD001) $12.00
Includes mostly original compositions and a handful
of standards (guitar/Chris Jentsch, bass/Dan Feiszli, drums/Jon Arkin).

"All kinds of cool noises come out of Jentsch's guitar on
MEDIA EVENT..."
- Cadence Magazine

› full Media Event CD review by Cadence

"On MEDIA EVENT Jentsch combines graceful dexterity with introspective intensity, an exceptional new talent on the instrumental guitar front."
- 20th Century Guitar Magazine

"Jentsch displays contemporary guitar mastery throughout
(his CD). When you think of the traditions of the guitar in the late 20th century, emotion is the word that is often conjured.
For Jentsch, add intellect, substance, and style to that
guitar-emotion definition."
- AllAboutJazz.com

› full Media Event CD review by All About Jazz

(Jentsch's Miami Suite) is contemporary jazz expression at
the very finest!
- JazzReview.com

› full Miami Suite CD review

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