Downbeat Readers Poll 2025
Group of the year
Artemis is thrilled once again to be recognized as “Group of the Year” by the Downbeat Readers Poll for the 3rd consecutive year! We want to thank all of our listeners and fans around the world for this honor. We appreciate you all!
ARTEMIS featured on NPR Music's TINY DESK
https://youtu.be/9ynfNPodJIk?si=ln3N6aVhyMSXlhAB
Yes, ARTEMIS is named for a Greek goddess. This jazz supergroup has super powers and they're on full display from beginning to end during this Tiny Desk. The multi-generational and multinational group is composed of pianist Renee Rosnes, drummer (and Tiny Desk alum) Allison Miller, bassist Noriko Ueda, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, all bandleaders with their own prolific outputs.
The quintet presents three original selections from their latest album, ARBORESQUE. "Olive Branch," a composition from musical director Rosnes, opens the set. Solos from her and Ueda provide the soil and roots, respectively, in which a trumpet solo from Jensen, then a dynamic solo from Miller, flourish. Miller's meditative "Little Cranberry" features soothing solos from Rosnes and Glover. It fades out in calming fashion to prepare you for Jensen's high energy closer, "Sights Unseen," which erupts in a dizzying flurry of Tilt-A-Whirl-esque solos from Jensen, Glover and Rosnes that take you on a ride you won't want to get off.
ARTEMIS: ARBORESQUE
Out now!
Fresh off their 2nd consecutive win for “Jazz Group of the Year” in the Downbeat Readers Poll, ARTEMIS returns with their third Blue Note album ARBORESQUE featuring the quintet helmed by pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, bassist Noriko Ueda, and drummer Allison Miller. A paean to the sheer joy of collaboration and creativity, the album also explores a theme of natural and environmental beauty. ARTEMIS will be celebrated the album release with a sold-out engagement at the legendary Village Vanguard in New York City.
ARBORESQUE was #1 on the JazzWeek Radio Charts for 5 consecutive weeks!
ARTEMIS
DOWNBEAT 89TH ANNUAL READER'S POLL
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ARTEMIS
(BLUE NOTE 2023)
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2023 DOWNBEAT 88th READER'S POLL JAZZ GROUP OF THE YEAR
"Robust voicings, free-jazz diversions and searching modal patterns all feature in the intricate style of ARTEMIS...so distinctive is each voice and so striking their sense of unity." – The Times of London
"Deep-swinging and technically accomplished, Blue Note supergroup Artemis produces a stellar follow up to its 2020 debut." - DownBeat
"In Real Time further establishes their prowess both as individuals and as a collective...a supergroup."
- NPR Music
"Artemis – goddess of the hunt, and of wilderness and nature besides – isn't known to miss her mark. So it goes with another Artemis now making a heralded return...'In Real Time' arrives this week, strengthening the band's claim to a rare status in the teeming ecology of modern jazz." - WRTI
