As We Are Now

by Jimmy Greene

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Praises 05:58
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Seventeen Days Words and music by Jimmy Greene Lights come up Start the show Applause from the crowd I’ll sing ‘till the last note is through Stage comes down Movin’ on Next town down the road I’m out here a long way from you Cheering happy people Scream louder as the music dies Can’t wait to read your message Unless it’s to say goodbye Sleepless night Staring into this light On my phone Seventeen more days ‘till I’m home Today is done Just seventeen more Baby, we got through one Just seventeen more  2024 Sidney James Music, BMI
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Impatient 04:46
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Unburdened 05:55
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Anhelando 05:48
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Flood Stage 04:02
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Speak Low 07:20

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Throughout Jimmy Greene’s debut release on his label Greene Music Works, the DownBeat Magazine Critics Poll winning and Grammy Award nominated saxophonist, composer and producer delivers a poignant musical statement addressing his personal wellbeing - and to some degree, the collective wellbeing of his household and community – more than twelve years after his daughter Ana’s life was violently taken at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut.

As We Are Now is Greene’s first release since 2020’s While Looking Up (Mack Avenue). At the album’s core is a powerful, emotionally stirring, and deeply personal suite of songs commissioned by Chamber Music America after naming Greene a winner of its Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-funded New Jazz Works grant program in 2023. As Greene states, “My emotional path over the past 12 years has not been linear - in my experience, there isn't a straight line from tragedy to triumph. Instead, I have consistently experienced a range of emotions, over time, that occupy the spectrum between great joy and deep sorrow. I tried to reflect that spectrum of emotion in the composition of the various songs that comprise the suite.”

About the recording, critic Thierry de Clemensat remarks, "Albums like this don’t merely entertain; they accompany. They console, they challenge, they stay. As We Are Now is such a work: a modern jazz masterpiece that neither shouts nor whispers, but speaks, clearly, honestly, and with a voice entirely its own."

credits

released July 25, 2025

Jimmy Greene – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 4-8), soprano saxophone (tracks 2 and 3), percussion (tracks 1 and 8)
Javier Colon – vocals (track 2)
Mike Moreno – guitar (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8)
Aaron Goldberg – piano (all tracks), Rhodes electric piano (track 4)
Shedrick Mitchell – Hammond B3 organ (tracks 1 and 5)
Dezron Douglas – bass (all tracks)
Jonathan Barber – drums (all tracks)
Rogerio Boccato – percussion (tracks 2, 5, 6)
Gabriel Globus-Hoenich – congas (track 8)

Produced by Jimmy Greene

Recorded February 26-27, 2024 at Big Orange Sheep Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Recording Engineer – Chris Benham
Assistant Recording Engineers – Brenna Nicole and Kevin Thomas
Edited, Mixed and Mastered at Systems Two Long Island, North Bellmore, NY
Editing, Mixing and Mastering Engineer - Mike Marciano

This recording was made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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Jimmy Greene is one of the most respected saxophonists of his generation. He has released 13 albums as a lead artist on the Greene Music Works, RCA Victor, Mack Avenue, Criss Cross Jazz and RazDaz labels and performed with his bands worldwide. He was nominated for 2 Grammy awards for his album Beautiful Life and has worked with Horace Silver, Ron Carter, Harry Connick, Jr. and Freddie Hubbard. ... more

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