For Your GRAMMY® Consideration
Best Alternative Jazz Album:
Feathered Things
Best Jazz Performance:
Feathered Things: III. Wingspan
Best Instrumental Composition:
Feathered Things: III. Wingspan
“Album of the year material.” ★★★★
“…an instrumental benchmark for any trumpet player”
“…an album that quietly expands the possibilities of contemporary jazz without announcing itself as revolutionary”
Credits
Emily Kuhn - trumpet, flugelhorn, effects
Meghan Stagl - piano, vocals
Erik Skov - guitar, effects
Kitt Lyles - bass
Gustavo Cortiñas - drums
All compositions by Emily Kuhn
Recorded by Andy Shoemaker at Rax Trax Recording (Chicago IL), December 2024
Additional recording by Kitt Lyles at Saluda Records (Chicago IL), March 2025
Mixed by Andy Shoemaker at Rax Trax Recording (Chicago, IL)
Mastered by Anthony Gravino at High Cross Sound (Urbana, IL)
Album art and design by Marine Tempels Black
Songs composed at an artist residency at OxBow School of Art (Saugatuck, MI), sponsored by the Luminarts Cultural Foundation
This project is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
Released on Desafío Candente Records
