RACHEL THERRIEN

BLUE NOTE / APRIL 12

The incendiary intensity with which trumpeter Rachel Therrien and her Latin Jazz Project exploded on her recording Mi Hogar I (Outside In, 2023) (which translates as ‘my home’) continues on Volume II. Although she dives deeper into the Latin Jazz tradition, the way she surfaces suggests a fresh new take on the rhythmic idiom of that Afro-Caribbean dialect. True to form, Rachel delivers a full spectrum of outstandingly vivid sound full of beautiful menace on trumpet and flugelhorn, redolent of exhilarating, extrovert and virtuosic chops. Listen as she navigates through the massive architectural inventions of her soli and their flaming grandeur, leaving no doubt that this is a horn player to be watched, listened to, reckoned with and unabashedly admired. RDG