We’re Still Here
Debut Album from NYO Jazz
NYO Jazz’s first full-length studio album, We’re Still Here, is now available for digital download and on all streaming platforms.
The album—recorded during the ensemble’s summer 2021 training residency at Purchase College, State University of New York, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic—features Carnegie Hall–commissioned works, a range of classic and contemporary jazz repertoire, and works exploring themes that include social justice, resilience, and the power of music to spark joy.
The CD is also available at the Carnegie Hall Shop.
NYO Jazz
We’re Still Here
Sean Jones, Artistic Director
with Special Guest Melissa Aldana
Featuring Wycliffe Gordon
- A Taste of Honey (Duke Pearson)*
- Pleasingly Plump (Quincy Jones)*
- Oyelo (Miguel Zenón)
- Mr. Jones and Co. (Ayn Inserto; 2019 NYO Jazz commission)
- Bedouin (Duke Pearson)
- We’re Still Here / He’s Alright (Wycliffe Gordon)
- Fête dans la tête (John Beasley; 2020 NYO Jazz commission)
- Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool (Duke Ellington and Laura Rembert, arr. Reginald Thomas)
- RPM’s (Igmar Thomas; 2021 NYO Jazz commission)
- Run with Jones (Miguel Zenón; 2018 NYO Jazz commission)
- Cute (Neal Hefti)
- I Be Serious ‘Bout Dem Blues (John Clayton)*
- The Art of War (Ralph Peterson)
- Transitions (Sean Jones)
*Digital exclusive
Produced by NYO Jazz Artistic Director Sean Jones. Recorded at The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. Engineered by Zach Brown with Adam Hong. Mixed by Zach Brown at The Bunker Studio. Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound.
Melissa Aldana appears courtesy of Blue Note Records.
Wycliffe Gordon appears courtesy of BluesBack Records.
NYO Jazz Lead Donors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, The Kovner Foundation, and Beatrice Santo Domingo.
Global Ambassadors: Michael ByungJu Kim and Kyung Ah Park, Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.
Major support has been provided by Veronica Atkins, Mercedes T. Bass, Ronald E. Blaylock and Petra Pope,Clive and Anya Gillinson, Melanie and Jean E. Salata, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, and Joyce and George Wein Foundation, Inc.
Additional support has been provided by the Alphadyne Foundation, Sarah Arison, Stella and Robert Jones, Martha and Robert Lipp, Beth and Joshua Nash, and David S. Winter.
NYO Jazz is made possible, in part, by an endowment grant from the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Foundation.