For Immediate Release:

NEW WAVE OF GREAT MUSIC

You might know Stephan Crump from his seven-year-and-counting association with emerging piano great Vijay Iyer, which has brought forth the albums Panoptic Modes, Blood Sutra, In What Language? and Iyer’s latest, Reimagining. Stephan has worked for nearly as long with Liberty Ellman, most recently on the acclaimed Pi discs Tactiles and Ophiuchus Butterfly. And together with Jamie Fox, Stephan performs and records with his wife, the radiant singer-songwriter Jen Chapin, whose most recent albums, Linger and Ready, he co-produced.

Crump has always been a part of several musical scenes in New York. A child of Memphis, he is strongly influenced by blues and R&B. He is a pillar of the progressive jazz scene, but also the indie-pop scene and various uncategorizables, such as Joel’s Harrison’s Free Country and (until recently) Gregg Bendian’s Mahavishnu Project. He’s also drawn inspiration from his film-scoring work for Miramax, HBO, Showtime, Bravo and Simple Focus Films. Rosetta is Stephan’s third solo release, following 1999’s Poems and Other Things (Papillon) and 2001’s Tuckahoe (Accurate).

On Rosetta, you can hear Stephan’s omnivorous outlook filtering through. The songs are complex yet immediate, and ever-so-slightly twisted. Each is its own compact universe, but the album tells a unified tale. The coherence of Stephan’s art is rare. And thanks to this rare and imaginative lineup – bass and two richly contrasting guitars – his gifts are nakedly and thrillingly apparent. Rosetta is jazz as it’s never quite sounded before.

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