“This unique and amazing band has done what I thought was impossible, successfully re-visioning and re-casting some of the most venerable jazz standards. The album simply vibrates with daring invention.”
Jared Burroughs
“This music is not for the faint of heart, nor for the dogmatic traditionalist. The well-known songs are brought to you here entirely reimagined and charged with playful new meaning. Accompanied by a magnificent vinyl album-cover and a video for each individual track, this concept album will take you on a trippy and profoundly enjoyable visual-sonic time-travel journey, which you’ll want to revisit again and again.”
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
Singer, composer, educator, artistic director of The Orchard of Pomegranites
VIDEO GALLERY
Standards
by Natalie Brett Quartet
The Natalie Brett Quartet is: Carol Sawyer vocals, Lisa Cay Miller piano, Clyde Reed bass, Kenton Loewen drums.
The Natalie Brett Quartet is inspired by a fictional character that Sawyer invented, NATALIE BRETTSCHNEIDER – for a feminist visual art project that challenges the ways in which art history has downplayed the contributions of women. This LP explores what Natalie Brettschneider’s brief flirtation with mainstream jazz in the 1940’s and 1950’s might have sounded like. The record launched December 9 2022 at 8EAST in Vancouver, and will be celebrated with an encore concert at the Vancouver Art Gallery January 6, 2023. LPs are available for sale at the Vancouver Art Gallery bookstore, or via bandcamp.
Recorded at the Warehouse Studio, on February 7th, 2020, using vintage microphones, plate reverbs, and other historical analog gear.
Recording Engineer, Mixing and Mastering: Sheldon Zaharko.
Vinyl Mastering: Chris Gestrin
Design: Robin Mitchell Cranfield/ hundreds & thousands
Issued in a limited edition of 200, 180g vinyl records, pressed by Standard Vinyl in Victoria British Columbia, Canada
All LPs come with a unique code to use to download a digital copy of it from Bandcamp – or you can purchase a digital copy only!
Recorded, mastered, manufactured and produced on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, in the place that is often called Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We are very grateful to live and work on these lands as uninvited guests.
This record was made with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, through an Explore and Create/ Concept to Realization grant
Album Cover Image Credits:
Arial shot of Vancouver by George Hunter, RCA, 1957, courtesy Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation
Photograph of Natalie Brettschneider courtesy Carol Sawyer. Photo montage: Robin Mitchell Cranfield, hundreds & thousands
You can read more about the larger Natalie Brettschneider Archive project HERE
