Plainville

Udden’s band Plainville features a folk-influenced twist, finding a niche on bills with country and folk groups as well as jazz, featuring Udden on sax, backed by a unique combination of pump organ/rhodes, banjo/guitar, bass and drums. Plainville is named for Udden’s home town in Massachusetts.

The newest Plainville album, If the Past Seems So Bright, was just released on Sunnyside Records and can be heard or purchased at Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, J&R, or at the release show on June 10th.

Featuring Udden (saxophones/clarinet), Brandon Seabrook (guitar/banjo), Pete Rende (rhodes/pump organ/moog), Eivind Opsvik (bass), and RJ Miller (drums) with special guests Nathan Blehar (guitar/voice), Justin Keller (voice), Will Graefe (guitar); this album picks up where the last one left off.

“If the Past Seems So Bright is about the idea of returning home. But the music is so much more than that. Udden is carving out new territory with this project, which folds folk, country, and rock into the jazz tradition.” (Steeve Greenlee, BOSTON GLOBE).

“This is carefully arranged music with an unruly streak — edgy, melancholy, but also at peace with itself… Is it jazz? Well, it’s not not jazz.” (Jon Garelick, BOSTON PHOENIX)

“Udden’s seamless integration of simple country, folk and rock melodies into a sophisticated jazz context lends Plainville’s improvisational excursions a cohesive sensibility, whether crafting pastoral ballads or tumultuous rockers.” (Troy Collins, ALLABOUTJAZZ.com)

Full reviews at: Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, AllAboutJazz; Contact to book a live performance.

Described as “folk, rock, free build upon the underlying jazz” (JAZZMAN – France) and “an appealingly dreamy roots-jazz combo” by Time Out New York, Plainville’s self-titled debut album appears on Fresh Sounds New Talent records (Spain) featuring: Pete Rende, pump organ/rhodes; Brandon Seabrook, banjo/guitar; Eivind Opsvik, bass; RJ Miller, drums; and Udden on saxophone. Also available on Amazon.com and iTunes.

Praise for Plainville:

Jazz for Wilco fans-a rural vibe that has a dash of a New England starkness to it, even when the aggression takes over. — VILLAGE VOICE

Some of the freshest sounding jazz to appear in some time. — THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE

A pluralistic stylistic orientation (rock, free, folk build upon the underlying jazz) Udden has created a resolutely new music where eclecticism and personal experience play an important role. — JAZZMAN (FRANCE)

The soprano and alto saxophonist Jeremy Udden reaches for rusticity and sincerity on his warm new album, “Plainville” (Fresh Sound New Talent), and sometimes he finds both… — THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Melodic, ruminative, nostalgic and fresh at the same time. — SEATTLE TIMES

Plainville is an appealingly dreamy roots-jazz combo, driven by Pete Rende’s pump organ and Brandon Seabrook’s banjo — TIME OUT NEW YORK