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Instrument: Saxophone, alto
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Nick Hempton
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Nick Hempton is an alto and tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, producing new music in the modern/mainstream tradition. Calling New York home since 2004, he headlines clubs throughout the city, as well as concert halls and festivals around the world. Influenced by the greats of the instrument– Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderley, etc., and informed by a youth misspent playing Rhythm & Blues and Ska in his native Australia, Hempton's jazz is original, approachable, and always swinging. From 2005 to 2016, Nick led The Nick Hempton Band: “an unusually sharp, cohesive unit” (David Orthmann– AAJ) performing original compositions at most of the major New York venues, as well as touring regionally and internationally
Earotica
By John Lang
Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Poetry in Commotion; January; Piano Intro; In My Fallitude; Flotando; Blues for Faddis; Sight
Unseen; Payable in Hats; Schoolin’; The St. Vitus Dance; So You Say; Trepidation.
Get Ready
Label: Cellar Live
Released: 2023
Track listing: Get Ready; Free At Last; Face To Face; Tin Tin Deo; What Do You Day Dr.J?; Meat Wave; Tough
At The Top; A Foggy Day.
John Lang: Earotica
by Jack Bowers
There's something special about a nonet: small enough to have its own personality, yet large enough to sound at times akin to a full-size big band. Bassist John Lang leads a first-class nonet on Earotica, his fourth album as leader. Having given Lang's last disc a rather lukewarm appraisal almost two years ago, ...
Nightcrawlers: Get Ready
by Pierre Giroux
The common thread between the Nightcrawlers and nightcrawler earthworms is that they both come out at night, and while the former is at home in a jazz club before a live audience, the latter is feeding on decaying organic material. Some may say that is a distinction without a difference. Nevertheless the latest nightly ritual for ...
Nick Hempton Band Live & Loud
by David A. Orthmann
Nick Hempton Band Live and Loud New York, NY December 3, 2020 Can venues reflect the tenor of a particular time? In August of 2018, saxophonist Nick Hempton played two sets at a park in Dobbs Ferry, NY, a striking location right on the Hudson River. It was a comfortably warm ...
Joe Magnarelli at Smalls Jazz Club
by David A. Orthmann
Joe Magnarelli Quintet Smalls Jazz Club New York, NY September 1, 2020 One hundred days may not sound like a particularly long time in the annals of jazz or, for that matter, any human endeavor. Nevertheless, in the midst of a seemingly endless pandemic that has upended every aspect of ...
Night Owl
By Nick Hempton
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Night Owl; I Remember Milady's; After You've Gone I'm A Fool To Want You; 10st Street Turnaround; Corner
Bistro; It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream; Listen Hard, Speak Easy; Macao Mood.
Nick Hempton: Night Owl
by Dan Bilawsky
If jazz belongs to a single breed of believers, it would have to go to the night owls. Those loyalists who live a nocturnal existencethe listeners. sitting at the bar while they drink in their surroundings, and the performers, playing into the wee small hours in basement hideawaysare the heartbeat of this music, and saxophonist Nick ...
Kayo Hiraki: Manhattan Sunset
by Mike Jurkovic
Like a fine lemon sorbet, Manhattan Sunset, the sixth album from pianist and veteran NY presence Kayo Hiraki, is that refreshing, necessary pause between courses that enables you to fully enjoy the vast jazz menu. With an airy, elegant touch, tangible zeal and seasoned respect for her art, Hiraki leads her tried-and-true sidemen, bassist ...