Mary Halvorson Shares Her “Turning Point” With Jazzwise

Posted on Sep 4, 2025
Mary Halvorson Shares Her “Turning Point” With Jazzwise

In a “Turning Point” feature for JazzwiseMary Halvorson shares her affection for the album Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt. “When you’re a teenager and you hear things for the first time they have an incredible impact; and I certainly had experiences like that at that age. But it’s much rarer that you get that kind of impact later in life; and this is one of those records for me,” she says before expanding on how the album was a “turning point” for her as an artist. Read more here.

Halvorson is currently at radio with her chart-topping release About Ghosts, her third LP featuring the Amaryllis sextet. The album is out via Nonesuch.

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