Silver Threads Digital FLAC Album exclusiveComposer Jacob Coopers label debut, Silver Threads comprises a six song cycle performed by soprano Mellissa Hughes. Cooper wrote the title track for Hughes in 2011, setting a haiku attributed to Japanese poet Matsuo Bash for voice and electronic track. To expand it into a full cycle (for voice and track), he enlisted five other poets to write text that was inspired by the haiku: Greg Alan Brownderville, Tarfia Faizullah, Kristin Kelly, Dora Malech,
This 7-LP Deluxe Edition of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
and a duet with Fiona Apple on The Everly Brothers' “You’re the One I Love
pianist Gwilym Simcock
" The two-LP vinyl edition was remastered from the original high-resolution source files and pressed on 140-gram vinyl
is the culmination of four years of research
"a vivid and engaging jazz outing
The New York Times proclaimed it one of the year's best
and adapted for a band of jazz musicians that he assembled and subsequently immersed in the fine stylistic points of the genre
Its musical references are as varied as Milton Nascimento
lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
one of the more extraordinary records of the year
first released on the album's 15th anniversary in 2019
