The Hot Tone Music label was founded in 2009 in order to provide support for jazz artists--very much including women--who may have been overlooked and who need additional opportunities to advance their careers and their music. In line with their mission, Hot Tone puts the spotlight on three outstanding female instrumentalists and bandleaders with the simultaneous release, on Feb. 4, of new CDs by Mimi Jones, Camille Thurman, and Shirazette Tinnin.
The simultaneous release on February 4 of new Hot Tone Music CDs by Mimi Jones ("Balance"), saxophonist Camille Thurman ("Origins"), and drummer Shirazette Tinnin ("Humility: Purity of My Soul") places the label at the forefront of bringing recognition to the increasing prominence of world-class female musicians in the jazz arena.
“Hot Tone Music was created to give chances to those who may have been overlooked and denied the necessary support and knowledge to develop,” says bassist Jones, who founded the label in 2009. “Women are a big part of that group, and so I always look out for them.
Women have come a long way but are still a minority in jazz, so we’ve formed a network of sorts where we can call on each other for support and recommendations.
“As it is a great desire of mine to free myself of remembering that we are ‘women in jazz’ instead of musicians,” she adds, “we are still in times where it remains seen as ‘special’ for women to be really doing it—and doing it well.”
Women have come a long way but are still a minority in jazz, so we've formed a network of sorts where we can call on each other for support and recommendations.
Jones, Thurman, and Tinnin had already established impressive track records as instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, and bandleaders. The three women make appearances on each other’s Hot Tone CDs and also call on the services of top players such as Ingrid Jensen, Luis Perdomo, Enoch Smith Jr., and Justin Faulkner (Jones); Corcoran Holt, Rudy Royston, and Brandee Younger (Thurman); and Rachel Eckroth, Willerm Delisfort, and Tia Fuller (Tinnin).
Genre-blending is a hallmark of Mimi Jones’s music—on both her 2009 debut "A New Day" and her brand-new "Balance." The disc features seven of her own compositions, one by band member Marvin Sewell, and striking arrangements of tunes by Adele (“Someone Like You”), Roy Ayers (“Everybody Loves the Sunshine”), and Bob Dorough (“Nothing Like You”) as well as the children’s favorite “The Incy Wincy Spider.” She plays acoustic bass on nine tracks and electric bass on three and sings on six (Jones added singing to her bass playing seven years ago).
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