All Species Parade is a jazz album, and it may well be the versatile Jenny Scheinman’s best across a multi-genre career that now counts eleven. It’s her first in six years since her acclaimed co-led Parlour Game with Allison Miller. Scheinman had built most of her reputation while based in New York but returned to her native Humboldt County, CA (‘The Lost Coast’) twelve years ago and built this album with the characters, landscapes, and folklore of her native region in mind. Unlike previous efforts that yielded relatively short songs, she delivers a double album here with only ten songs, several over 11 minutes long. She explains, “This is nature worship music, and I didn’t want it to feel domesticated.” - jim Hynes