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Collin Sherman

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Collin was born in 1979 in Lexington, Kentucky. Growing up in Louisville, he began playing saxophone in 4th grade at age 9. He attended Oberlin College (in Oberlin, Ohio) and Tulane Law School (in New Orleans, Louisiana). Collin moved to New York City in 2004, and played with a traditional jazz group on and off while practicing law. He began releasing his own recording in 2012. His early recording were in the ambient electronic vein, partly because the project was entirely self- produced and Collin did not have access to standard recording equipment. As he grew more comfortable recording and producing on his own, he gradually began incorporating his wind instruments (alto and soprano saxophone, Bb soprano and bass clarinet) into his recordings

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Ouroborosuite

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Snake in the Grass; Find Your Friends and Hold On; Dystopian Bulgar; What Have They Done Now?; Awaken!; Force Beyond Control; A Vision for Afterwards.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Gabrielle Cavassa, Joe Lovano, Phillip Golub, Amrita, James Wengrow

Read "Gabrielle Cavassa, Joe Lovano, Phillip Golub, Amrita, James Wengrow" reviewed by Cheryl K.


During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--vocalists Eartha Kitt, Gabrielle Cavassa and Stella Heath; saxophonist Joe Lovano and his Paramount Quartet; pianists Phillip Golub and Emmet Cohen; the ensemble Tumbao Bravo with bandleader and reedman Paul Vornhagen; the ensemble Ancient Future; the duo Amrita; and guitarists Vladimir Redzic, Tomas Janzon, and James Wengrow ...

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Article: Album Review

Collin Sherman: Ouroborosuite

Read "Ouroborosuite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The first sentence in multi-instrumentalist Collin Sherman's liner notes for his 2026 CD Ouroborosuite says: “The United States is eating itself." Ouroboros, the image of a snake eating its tail, is historically seen as a symbol of eternal, cyclical renewal. Sherman is using it as a symbol of self-destruction, specifically to the United States in 2026, ...

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Life Eats Life

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Kepler-10b Prehistory; Life Eats Life; Requiem; Scarcity of Abundance; Hungrily They Wait; Action, Unrest.

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Article: Album Review

Collin Sherman: Life Eats Life

Read "Life Eats Life" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Collin Sherman, a multiple reedman, has a day job in Manhattan. But on nights and weekends, he sheds the work clothes and switches into his idiosyncratic original voice in the creation of music. Life Eats Life is a solo effort. He plays and records all the instruments in his living room for his albums. Then he ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Carole Nelson Trio, Heather Ward, Hi Res Heart, Dom Salvador

Read "The Carole Nelson Trio, Heather Ward, Hi Res Heart, Dom Salvador" reviewed by Cheryl K.


During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, you'll hear from The Carole Nelson Trio; pianists Frank Carlberg and Dom Salvador; vocalists Heather Ward, Marisa Balistreri, and Michael Mayo; High Res Heart; and saxophonists Collin Sherman and Miguel Zenon. Playlist George Russell & The Living Time Orchestra “Event I: Organic Life on ...

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Electric Empath

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Electric Empath

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Noir

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: For Feldman; On the Rocks; Noir; Actual Malice; Midnight Din; Blue Kilter.

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String Planes

Label: Ex-tol Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Slipping Through the String Plane, pt. 1; Slipping Through the String Plane, pt. 2; Desert Resurrection; Pulsebow; Crisis Walk; In Limine Fortunae.


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