JASON STEIN
With Anchors, Chicago-based bass clarinetist Jason Stein returns after six years with his most personal album to date. It was created together with bassist Joshua Abrams (Natural Information Society, of which Stein has been a member since 2017), drummer Gerald Cleaver, and guest artist/co-producer Boon.
Anchors are, so often, symbolic of strength and stability. They reflect our capacity to steady ourselves in turbulent waters, allowing us to traverse the deepest seas. With anchors aboard, we can quell our fears, weather the storm, and chart forth. In all their looming weight, anchors allow us to be free. With Anchors, Jason Stein emerges from a six-year hiatus as a bandleader to offer his most personal, nuanced, and expansive album yet – a luminous tribute to anchors of his own. Amidst the discomfort of transformation, he reaches into a reservoir of resilience and invites us to do the same.
When Stein confronted a perplexing injury that threatened to end his career, he realized his musical pursuits could not be divorced from a holistic corporeal practice. Rooted in the teachings of the prolific percussionist and polymath Milford Graves, Stein explored a myriad of healing arts, adopting a series of disciplines along the way. Through the regular practice of cold- water plunges and breathwork, he discovered a newfound connection between his body and his instrument. Through the study of myofascial trigger point therapy, Stein was able to locate the source of his injury, and heal it. Decades after his first exploration in the eld, Stein is now a licensed trigger point therapist himself, and the healing practices he adopted years ago remain anchors in his life to this day.
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