Recent New Music
“One Train (May Hide Another)” for big band, performed at the 2023 BMI Showcase by the BMI/New York Jazz Orchestra (conducted by Helm).
“Shindig” for jazz quartet, featuring Helm (alto saxophone, composition), Max Light (guitar), Kaisa Mäensivu (bass), and Peter Kronreif (drums).
“Osito” for jazz quartet, featuring Helm (alto saxophone, composition), Max Light (guitar), Kaisa Mäensivu (bass), and Peter Kronreif (drums).
Our Highway
Composed by Helm for Cowboys & Frenchmen. Recorded live at SubCulture in NYC, this through-composed work is accompanied by an album-length video conceived by co-leaders Helm and Owen Broder, and edited by filmmaker Barry Mottier. Click here for ways to watch.
Our Highway presents a sweeping view of America as seen through the window of a band’s tour van. This album embodies forward motion, pastoral beauty, urban energy, and economic struggle. Each track expresses these themes in a different setting, from hectic big cities, to majestic and tranquil nature, to the nonstop propulsion of life on the road wit hits many surprises and challenges. Contrasting musical themes are blended together with virtuosic solos and collective improvisation to create a harmonious collage of modern jazz, telling the story of daily life as a contemporary American artist.
Additional Select Work
Albums
Wet Electricity, Vol. I (link to store)
Woodwind Arrangements
Merch
Press
“lyrical, kinetic, brightly spiraling alto sax”
– delarue, New York Music Daily, in praise of “Amsterdam Lights”
“macrocosmic musical vision”
– Steve Provizer, ArtsFuse, in praise of “Wet Electricity, Vol. I”
“★★★★”
-Howard Mandel, Downbeat Magazine, in praise of “Bluer Than You Think”