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Philip Graham Stunning. This music is the real deal, the really real Real Deal. Favorite track: Grief (feat. Boom Bishop).
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majhium A simply stunning album of truly human music. So many beautiful tracks...👌 The weirdest thing... Shopping at Lidl and the track Grief started playing in my head. No idea why. Wonderfully strange experience. Favorite track: Holding Cell.
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Gijs van Soest This is soothing, touching, deeply emphatic music. It the same time, it also has a harmonic and rhythmic complexity that makes it an interesting listen, without ever getting in the way of the emotional impact. Well outside my usual musical territory but what a fantastic album. Favorite track: Hope (feat. Elena Pinderhughes, Nio Norwood, & Jehbreal Jackson).
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Selected as a top ten Best Jazz album of 2022 by The New York Times

Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for striking intimacy and carefully crafted, radically honest lyrics alongside high-level musicianship. He is also known for using his music to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change and works in the tradition of the black surrealists, those who bend word, sound, and image towards the causes of revolution. Pinderhughes is a prison abolitionist and an advocate for process over product. His music is renowned for its emotionality, its honesty about difficult and vulnerable topics, and its careful details in word and sound.

As an artist, Pinderhughes’ goal is that people will LIVE DIFFERENTLY after experiencing what he makes—that it will affect how they think, how they act, how they relate to others, how they consider their daily relationships to their country and their world.

Pinderhughes has collaborated with many artists across boundaries and scenes including Herbie Hancock, Common, Glenn Ligon, Sara Bareilles, Daveed Diggs, Titus Kaphar, and Lalah Hathaway. He works frequently with Common on compositions for music and film, and is featured as a composer, lyricist, vocalist, and pianist on the new albums August Greene and Let Love with Common, Robert Glasper, and Karriem Riggins. He has performed his compositions at Carnegie Hall, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Kennedy Center, and toured internationally with artists including Branford Marsalis, Christian Scott, Jose James, and Emily King.

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Pinderhughes began playing music at two years old and started piano at seven. His life changed forever when he was granted entry into the Young Musicians Choral Orchestra program, a free program for Bay Area youth, where he first studied harmony, learned about jazz, and began composing. He also studied music in Cuba for the time he and his family lived there in his youth. After graduating high school, Samora moved to New York to study at Juilliard under master teachers Kenny Barron and Kendall Briggs. It was also during this time that he met his primary artistic mentor, MacArthur-winning playwright Anna Deavere Smith.

This started Pinderhughes down the path of writing lyrics and combining film and theatre with his music in radical new ways. His first major political music project was The Transformations Suite, combining music, theatre, and poetry to examine the radical history of resistance within the communities of the African Diaspora, co-written by Christophe Abiel and Jeremie Harris. This was followed by The Black Spring EP in 2020, produced with Jack DeBoe, and songs including Inertia, Process, No Plce, and Star-Blooded Work Song. He is also the creator of The Healing Project, a massive multidisciplinary project that examines trauma & healing from incarceration, detention, and structural violence, and which will debut in 2022 as an exhibition and a VR digital archive.

Pinderhughes is the first-ever Art for Justice + Soros Justice Fellow and a recipient of Chamber Music America’s 2020 Visionary Award. He has also been designated as a Creative Capital awardee, a Joe’s Pub / Public Theater NYC Artist-in-Residence, and a Sundance Composers Lab fellow. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and is currently getting his Ph.D. at Harvard University in the Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry program under the direction of Vijay Iyer.

Pinderhughes also scored the award-winning documentary Whose Streets? and the Field of Vision film Concussion Protocol. The short film for his song Process, directed with Christian Padron, won 2021’s Best Experimental Film award at Blackstar Film Festival. He is a member of Blackout for Human Rights, the arts & social justice collective founded by Ryan Coogler and Ava DuVernay, and was musical director for their #MLKNow and #JusticeForFlint events.

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released April 15, 2022

ALBUM ART :
Titus Kaphar

CD:
The Jerome Project, Asphalt and Chalk IV, 2014
graphite on asphalt paper
49 x 35.5 inches (unframed)
© Titus Kaphar. Courtesy of the Artist

Vinyl:
An Icon for Destiny (Study), 2015
Oil and tar on canvas
34 x 30 inches
© Titus Kaphar. Courtesy of the Artist

THE ENSEMBLE:
Samora Pinderhughes - piano, vocals, wurlitzer, production, arrangements
Jehbreal Jackson - vocals
Nio Levon - vocals
Marcus Gilmore - drums
Boom Bishop - electric bass & sonics
Clovis Nicolas - upright bass
Brad Allen Williams - guitars
Elena Pinderhughes - flute
Immanuel Wilkins - alto saxophone
Lucas Pino - tenor saxophone & bass clarinet
Argus Quartet (courtesy of The Metropolis Ensemble) - string quartet
Jack DeBoe - production & engineering

PRODUCTION & WRITING CREDITS:
Music & Lyrics written & arranged by Samora Pinderhughes
Music to the song “Internal Geographies” co-written by Brad Allen Williams, Music to the song “Grief” co-written by Burniss Travis (aka Boom Bishop) .
All music brought to life alongside and with the ensemble .

Produced by Samora Pinderhughes & Jack DeBoe
Executive Produced by Samora Pinderhughes, Jack DeBoe & Jesse Sachs

Music recorded at Figure 8 in pandemic protocols

Engineered & Mixed by Jack DeBoe
Co-engineered by Lily Wen
Mastered by Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound
Creative Direction by Christian Padron, Ray Neutron, Jesse Sachs, and Samora Pinderhughes

PROJECT SUPPORTERS & FURTHER CREDITS:
Grief was created with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program. Additional support provided by New Music USA and Carnegie Hall.

GRIEF is also a part of The Healing Project, a multidisciplinary project created & developed by Samora Pinderhughes. The Healing Project is produced by Anna Deavere Smith, Glenn Ligon, and Vijay Iyer, in conjunction with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Samora Pinderhughes is a Yamaha Piano Artist.

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