Pianist Andy Milne & Unison Announce Summer Tour for 2021 JUNO Jazz Album of the Year, The reMission, With Support From Jazz Road Tour Grant After taking home the 2021 JUNO Award for Jazz Album of the Year, the steadfast pianist and his trio Unison will tour throughout the United States starting June 2022 with … Read More
Pianist & Composer Andy Milne Wins Jazz Album of the Year: Group at 2021 JUNO Awards For Personal New Release, The reMission Watch “The reMission Promo” via YouTube here On June 4, 2021, internationally renowned pianist and composer Andy Milne and his trio, Unison, won the 2021 Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year: … Read More
by Will Layman, PopMatters “Andy Milne is a pianist who has often been in the thick of experimentation with form and with jazz collision with hip-hop in certain forms. It’s cool, then, to encounter The Remission, on which he leads a piano trio (with John Hebert on bass and drummer Clarence Penn) assaying two jazz standards … Read More
By NPR In their first Manhattan meeting since January, pianist Andy Milne, bassist John Hébert and drummer Clarence Penn reconvened in the piano salon of Yamaha Artist Services. They perform tunes from their 2020 Sunnyside release The reMission. WBGO’s Greg Bryant interviews the artists midway through the performance. Watch this video here.
By Ken Waxman, Jazz Word Favored in many styles of Jazz at least since the early 1950s, the conventional piano, bass and drums trio has been used by everyone from Teddy Wilson on one hand to Cecil Taylor on the other. The true test of interpretation for many though is how to assert individuality within … Read More
by Jerome Wilson, All About Jazz Every jazz pianist plays in their own individual style. These recent albums demonstrate the way seven particular players approach the instrument. Read the full article here.
By Jeff Tamarkin, JazzTimes Aside from its unusual approach to capitalization, the title isn’t an attempt to be clever; this album is the first recording released by pianist Andy Milne since being diagnosed with, and recovering from, prostate cancer in 2017. The experience, and in particular the homeopathic healing process he underwent, gave Milne—who leads … Read More
By Ron Schepper, Textura Whereas Without Deception continues Barron’s long-standing association with the classic trio format, The reMission presents Andy Milne’s first engagement. Not that you’d know it from the result: the fifty-minute recording plays like the work of musicians with years of trio experience under their belts, even if that’s not the case. The … Read More
By Geno Thackara, All About Jazz Though Andy Milne actually hasn’t recorded in the classic trio format before, you’d never know it just from The Re:Mission. He’s been no slouch in many other settings, from supporting Cassandra Wilson or Steve Coleman to the genre-mashingly ambitious Dapp Theory quintet. Having always had a dream of trying … Read More
By Wulf Muller, Wulf’s Music + Blog Andy Milne / The reMission – this is pianist Milne’s first trio recording, a line-up he had found daunting so far. The recording session featured with drummer Clarence Penn and bassist John Hébert two experienced sidemen, which helped him to tackle the intimate piano trio format to the … Read More
