Song:A Very Short Song
Album:Sightline
This Chicago jazz trio is commonly known as Twin Talk. This 2013 album Sightline was released before they took the band name. I guess they didn't know at the time that they would record more than one album as a unit. The band is Dustin Laurenzi on tenor sax, Katie Ernst on bass and vocals and Andrew Green on drums. They first got together in 2012 and released the 2013 album Sightline. You'll notice that the video is from the 2014 Chicago Jazz Festival. After they got positive reviews for that performance, they decided to call themselves Twin Talk which is a reference to cryptophasia which is supposed to be a language shared by twins. They released their first album as Twin Talk in 2015. Laurenzi toured with Justin "Bon Iver" Vernon in 2017. And Twin Talk opened for Vernon in Minneapolis. Vernon liked them so much that he invited them to record at his studio. And that resulted in the 2019 album Weaver which was released on Vernon's label. Recording studio time is very valuable to struggling musicians. It's unlikely Twin Talk would have recorded without Vernon's help. These albums are all available as digital downloads. But Sightline gets lost in the shuffle because it wasn't released under the Twin Talk name though it is the same band. Laurenzi has released a couple of solo albums. And he and Green were in trumpeter Paul Dietrich's band. And Katie appears on a new album by sax player Gerritt Hatcher. So all three are regulars on the Chicago jazz scene. Twin Talk has been more successful than expected. Here's Laurenzi Ernst Green AKA Twin Talk performing A Very Short Song at the 2014 Chicago Jazz Festival.
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