The group’s name, Equal=Orchestra, is more aspirational than accurate, the musicians acknowledge.
The group’s name, Equal=Orchestra, is more aspirational than accurate, the musicians acknowledge. There aren’t many musicians of colour in the band. There’s not enough of an age range. Jensen is in her 50s and her first-call colleagues are contemporaries, though the alto saxophonist Caoilainn Power, a generation younger, helped balance things out.