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Ascent To The Blues

Alex Sipiagin

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2022
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Tracks

Dolphin's View; Blues For Wood; Doppio; Infant Eyes; Hindsight; No Doubts; Rush Hour; One More Shot; Novgorod Bells; Sandrigo Blues; Twelve More Bars To Go.

Personnel

Additional Personnel / Information

Alex Sipiagin - trumpet; flugelhorn No Doubts, Infant Eyes Diego Rivera - tenor saxophone Art Hirahara - piano; Rhodes 1, 3, 6, 8, 10 Boris Kozlov - bass; electric bass 1 Rudy Royston - drums; percussion

Album Description

The sky is well within reach when trumpet player extraordinaire Alex Sipiagin sets his sights on the summit and heads off upward in an Ascent to the Blues for his 2022 release on Posi-Tone Records. The session features the focused wizardry of Sipiagin’s incisive technique, gripping tonality and hard hitting melodicism are countered cleverly against the curvature of contributions from Diego Rivera on tenor saxophone, the cool complexities of Art Hirahara on piano, the steady underpinnings of Boris Kozlov on bass, and the bombastic metrics of Rudy Royston on drums and percussion. While the album program remains decidedly straight forward and rooted in the blues throughout, the music is also elegantly lyrical and brilliantly evocative of a truly modern jazz sensibility. With a flawless combination of effortless mastery and brilliant performances, Sipiagin's “Ascent to the Blues" reaches steadily upward toward new heights and provides a clear pathway of inspirational bright moments for jazz fans everywhere to joyfully ascend again and again.

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