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

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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