At Length Interviews Mary Halvorson

From At Length:

Mary Halvorson’s name has been appearing alongside phrases like “the future of jazz” for a few years now, but especially since her most recent outing as a bandleader last fall with the album Saturn Sings (which made dozens of critic’s top 10 lists).  And you should believe the hype — her clear, spikey guitar style is adventurous and surprising, but is held together by an internal melodic logic that you sense from the first phrase. But even if the jazz world (or some faction of it) has fallen for Halvorson, her own relationship to the genre is far from monogamous.  While she was a student of jazz from a very early age, it was only after an eight-year break from the end of her formal jazz education that she was able to to pursue a career in the genre.  In addition, her current projects include everything from avant-garde improv combos to rock bands.  Where she ends up in the future is anyone’s guess, but it should be an interesting ride.

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