Artemis novel reviews5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() While we’re talking ecologies: an Ingrid Jensen composition meaningfully titled “Timber,” near the album’s midpoint, conveys some defining elements of this group’s style. An even more accomplished follow-up, In Real Time, arrives this week, strengthening the band’s claim to a rare status in the teeming ecology of modern jazz. I’m referring to the all-star improvising collective by that name, which released a worthy debut on Blue Note Records in 2020. So it goes with another Artemis now making a heralded return. But Artemis - goddess of the hunt, and of wilderness and nature besides - isn’t known to miss her mark. ![]() A community of frogs in the poem cower “in terror of your judgment day,” hoping only to be spared. “At dawn you shall appear,” augured the English poet Robert Graves, “A gaunt, red-legged crane.” Graves, in his 1947 poem ‘ Return of the Goddess Artemis,’ was imagining a celestial deity in the earthiest of settings: as a wading bird in a humble wetland, thicketed with alder shrubs and a bubbling spring. ![]()
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