Tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover was no stranger to the jazz world before September, when she released her debut album as a leader, Strange Lands, on the Savant label—she’d played with George Colligan, Esperanza Spalding, and the quintet Out to Dinner—but she wasn’t exactly high-profile either. (Disclosure: I wrote the liner notes for Strange Lands.) How did HighNote/Savant head Barney Fields get wind of her?
Through the artists he’d already signed. “[Trumpeter] Jeremy Pelt and [pianist] George Cables were on tour with a trio in February of 2020,” Fields says. “And they heard her. Cables first brought up Nicole: ‘Oh, she’s particularly good. She’s a great player, she’s been
