Featuring Renee Rosnes of the Jazz Super-group Artemis

Renee Rosnes is the musical director of the group Artemis. Renee discusses the meaning of the group's name, and the experience of working with these amazing women, and she gives her definition of Soul

Who is Artemis?

ARTEMIS is a jazz supergroup comprised of pianist and musical director Renee Rosnes, clarinetist Anat Cohen, tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, bassist Noriko Ueda, and drummer Allison Miller. The group is distinctive not only for bringing together six singular artists, each renowned for their own remarkable solo career; but for its multi-generational and globe-spanning line-up with members hailing from the US, Canada, Israel and Japan.

The band’s debut album ARTEMIS on Blue Note Records is a superb nine-song set that features material composed and/or arranged by each of the band’s six instrumentalists. ARTEMIS unfurls with a dynamic flow, stunningly eclectic yet entirely cohesive. “The group identity emerged organically,” Rosnes says, and ARTEMIS discovered a thrilling collective vision early in its lifespan. “We are six leaders, each with our own vision and personal point of view, but we play with a unified conception.”