Melissa Pipe Sextet

Melissa Pipe is a baritone saxophonist, bassoonist, composer and arranger who lives in Montreal, Canada.

www.melissapipe.com

“Of What Remains” is Melissa’s first release as a leader and features her playing and writing for small group. The sextet’s instrumentation of trumpet, tenor sax/bass clarinet, baritone sax/bassoon, piano, bass and drums allows her to write in both traditional jazz ensemble configuration (trumpet and saxes with the rhythm section) and in a “chamber jazz” format. The additional colour, timbre and orchestration possibilities of the bassoon and the bass clarinet are particularly effective in infusing elements of classical and folk music into the pieces.

The album explores ideas around temporality: the shifting of time, form and being. The pieces form a whole, joining together fragmentation, symbiosis, distillation, evaporation, transience, while looking at what is left behind, or what remains.

Melissa Pipe Sextet
“Of What Remains”

Melissa Pipe: baritone sax, bassoon
Lex French: trumpet
Philippe Côté: tenor sax, bass clarinet
Geoff Lapp: piano
Solon McDade: bass
Mili Hong, drums

Special guest Michael Sundell, contrabassoon (select tracks)