Abigail Jones for Vanity Fair — The musicians [of Artemis] offer proof of the innovation and leadership coming from an unprecedented number of women in the field, a snapshot of the freshest faces of 21st-century jazz: women instrumentalists who have sizzle right now….Those assembled here are among the most in-demand jazz musicians in the business.
Artemis features Renee Rosnes as music director and pianist, Cécile McLorin Salvant as vocalist, Anat Cohen on Clarinet, Ingrid Jensen on Trumpet, Melissa Aldana on saxophone, Noriko Ueda on bass, and Allison Miller on drums.
In Rosnes’ own words: I’m hoping for a future when people don’t look at it like a novelty act, and people will laugh at articles like this and wonder, ‘Can you imagine? They had to write like that about women in jazz?’ Imagine that.