And So It Is【TAPE】- Aaron Shaw

兄とのデュオ Black Nile での活動や、Herbie Hancock、Tyler, The Creator、Anderson .Paak ら錚々たるアーティストとの共演で知られる、LA屈指の才能を持つサックス/フルート奏者 Aaron Shaw。彼が2023年に27歳という若さで骨髄不全という深刻な病気の診断を受け、身体的な制約や死と向き合う中で生まれた「新しい演奏スタイル」によって紡がれたのが、この奇跡的なデビュー･アルバムです。本作では、現代ジャズ界のキーパーソンである Carlos Niño が共同プロデュースを手掛けており、LAの重鎮シンガーである Dwight Trible をはじめ、チェロやハープ奏者など、多くの才能あふれる盟友たちが彼を支えるように参加。静かな祈りを捧げるような穏やかな幕開けから、徐々にエモーショナルな高揚へと至る見事な構成が特徴の本作には、絶望と孤独の深淵、そしてそれを乗り越えた先にある不思議な清らかさが見事に音楽に昇華されております。LAのジャズ･シーンの現在地を体現する、深く内省的でエモーショナルなスピリチュアル･アンビエント･ジャズの傑作を、ぜひテープの質感でお楽しみください。

Aaron Shaw is one of LA's most talented saxophone/flutists, known for his work with his brother in the duo Black Nile and for collaborating with such great artists as Herbie Hancock, Tyler, The Creator, and Anderson .Paak. In 2023, at the young age of 27, he was diagnosed with a serious disease called bone marrow failure, and this miraculous debut album was born out of a ``new performance style'' born while facing physical limitations and death. This work is co-produced by Carlos Niño, a key figure in the contemporary jazz world, and is supported by many talented allies, including Dwight Tribble, a prominent LA singer, as well as cellists and harp players. This work is characterized by a wonderful structure that begins with a calm opening that resembles a quiet prayer, and gradually builds to an emotional height.The abyss of despair and loneliness, and the mysterious purity that lies beyond that, are sublimated into music. Please enjoy this masterpiece of deeply introspective and emotional spiritual ambient jazz, which embodies the current state of LA's jazz scene, with the texture of tape.