“He makes his septet sound like a court orchestra drunk on Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus. It is inspired, absorbing, and intelligent....It has all the makings of something great”
–Jazz News France
“...intricately constructed compositions with the joyful exuberance of a Mardi Gras second line.The mix of complex intelligence and a wide, warm smile connects with both head and heart, and serious tunes can be embraced for either their cerebral facets or just out of sheer fun”
–birdistheworm.com
"A superb recording, remarkable for its focus and its journey through a long chronology of disparate source material."
-4 stars, Downbeat
".....Sanders and Strosahl consistently impress, and make Janus a shining example of free-spirited, easy-flowing chamber jazz"
--Jazziz
"Strosahl is already a master, and where he will go from here is anyone's guess....Up Go We is another best of 2016"
-4 1/2 stars, AllAboutJazz
"Intellectually stimulating, this past/present accomplishment unveils a duo of enormous quality."
--JazzTrail
"The music that an inattentive listener can interpret as risky combinations therefore seems to us to perform a precise interpretative function. The work is, however, ambitious, complex and often surprising: it must be listened to several times to appreciate its originality and value." [translated from Italian]
- Angelo Leonardi, All About Jazz
"...the way that Strosahl blends so many disparate musical styles suggests a composer of rare talent."
--Jazzviews.net
ALBUMS
"[An] ambitious, idiosyncratic disc....contemporizes the tale with verve and wit" --Jazziz
"It’s crazy, but it’s also kinda great, and I am 100% on board for Books II and III."--Stereogum
"His seven-piece band and the narration he wrote for Julla Easterlin meld ancient lore, fanciful creation and powerful uses of jazz and classical music—modern and ancient—into an absorbing, demanding work" --Doug Ramsey
Ultimately, his erudite manipulation of such material feels transparent. The trio blows through the compositions with nonchalant agility, using the disparate notions as improvisational grist.... Despite his age—he’s just 30—Strosahl presents the program with seasoned confidence, shaping his compositional ideas to produce ravishing results, rather than forcing his conceptual thrust to the forefront.
-Peter Margasak, Downbeat
GAME
Performers: Tomek Van Leeuwen (bass), Luca Sguera (piano), Tomek Soltys (piano), Joshua Jaswon (alto sax), Logan Strosahl (flute)
COMPOSITION
Performers: Andrew Jones (bass), Logan Strosahl (tenor sax), James Powers (trombone), Mike Gamble (guitar), Cyrus Nabipoor (trumpet), Matt Mayhall (drums)
Logan Strosahl is a composer and multi-instrumentalist writing music for several idioms including modern classical composition and music for games. In composing, his purpose is as singular as his influences are varied: to weld technique to the expression of something true.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Logan started his musical journey as a jazz saxophonist, garnering several national accolades during high school, and eventually graduating from New England Conservatory (2011) with a B.M in Jazz performance, and later Universität der Künste Berlin Berlin(2021) with an M.M in Jazz Composition.
Living in New York from 2013-18, Logan recorded 3 highly regarded albums of his original compositions on the Jazz label Sunnyside Records (as well as a duo album with pianist and longtime collaborator Nick Sanders). After moving to Berlin in 2018, Logan finished and recorded "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" for chamber orchestra and soloist, an hour-long musical retelling of the famous 14th-century poem. Performed by the Charles Rosen Ensemble under the baton of Michael Cohen-Weissert, Sir Gawain was then released on Sunnyside records in 2021. In Autumn of 2024, Logan will release an album featuring two long form compositions on the New Focus Label, a New York-based new music label: Manifest, a clarinet sextet (also recorded by members of the Charles Rosen Ensemble), and Light Monads, a journey into death set to the text of “Je Suis Déshéritée”, a 16th century French chanson. An avid believer in the creative potency of videogames, Logan has over the last year has devoted time to making game music, samples of which can be found here. He regularly performs as an improviser.
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Logan Strosahl proves there is no Inside/Outside divide, dismantling all dialectics: he’s melodic and free, reverent and irreverent, methodical and spontaneous, swinging and angular, raw and beautiful. ”
–Aaron Goldberg
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