While Looking Up

Artist: Jimmy Greene

Title: While Looking Up 

Release Date: April 3, 2020

Format(s): 

• CD: 6-panel digipak

• Digital: High-res 96/24

Genre(s): Jazz

Project Description: On Jimmy Greene’s heartfelt album, While Looking Up, the saxophonist was guided by the inspirational words of his pastor: “If I’m not able to find strength or peace by looking inward,” he said, “or if I’m not able to do it by looking outward to my immediate surroundings, I have to look upward.”

Greene finds solace, support and inspiration from each of these directions, but in particular from casting his gaze heavenward. Looking inward, he’s comforted by his faith and by the gift for moving, expressive composition that has marked his work for the last two decades. Looking outward, he has his family and his brilliant collaborators, culled for this project from a list of longtime favorites who haven’t entered the studio together in at least a decade. And while looking up, he recalls the joyful spirit of his daughter, Ana Márquez-Greene, who tragically lost her life in 2012, along with 25 other students and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Reuniting with his past collaborators – guitarist Lage Lund, bassist Reuben Rogers, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, drummer Kendrick Scott and pianist Aaron Goldberg – Greene’s music reaches new heights of personal expression and depth of feeling, while the ensemble finds a stunning chemistry and profound collective empathy.