Chroma

Description

At just 21 years old, Emma Rawicz has already sown the seeds of a great career. Indeed, she can already be considered part of the wave of young British jazz musicians who have made their mark worldwide. This saxophonist, originally from North Devon, has led her band at festivals in Turkey, Israel, and France, and single-handedly negotiated and managed a major UK tour. Emma Rawicz developed an early interest in music: she began composing for piano and violin at the age of seven. Jazz and the saxophone came later, at fifteen. At Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, one of the UK's leading music schools, she made astonishingly rapid progress on the instrument. Although her musical enthusiasm is very broad, "Chroma" bears the imprint of tenor saxophonists/composers who found their own way: Joe Henderson and Wayne Shorter. The album title "Chroma" (Greek for "color" or "paint") is very significant: Emma Rawicz is a synesthete. She involuntarily and simultaneously experiences music through a second sensory pathway, color. All but one of the tracks are named after relatively lesser-known colors.