HAUNTED BLUE

"Hang the classifications, and bring on more jazz art songs," noted classical music critic Terry Blain, "They are certainly not 'crossover': The term is a tad demeaning and does scant justice to the subtleties and innovations achieved by Walker in his richly suggestive new cycle." —Specialist to the Star Tribune (BBC Music Magazine, Opera Magazine U.K.) 

Haunted Blue is the debut album by international mezzo-soprano soloist Clara Osowski performing original compositions by jazz pianist, Jeremy Walker. The poetry of Haunted Blue features works by Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Minneapolis lyricist Greg Foley.

In a feature on APM’s New Classical Tracks, host Julie Amacher notes Haunted Blue contains, “songs that may reflect the future of classical music” and asks, “If Franz Schubert were composing songs today, would they sound like the songs heard on this new recording?“

Coverage of the project includes APM’s Composers Datebook and Classical Minnesota Public Radio, “All the works revel in spectral zones between light and shadow, loss and connection, classical and jazz;” Minnpost, “The recording is sublime, but the best way to experience ‘Haunted Blue’ is live;” City Pages Best Concerts of the Week; and Star Tribune, “Pianist Jeremy Walker rethinks jazz fusion with new songs for mezzo-soprano.” Haunted Blue received its New York debut in October 2019 as a vocal/piano duo, launching a new performance series at Brooklyn’s Soapbox Gallery.

Clara Osowski bio at Colbert Artists >>

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