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Longing To Meet You

Jake Hertzog

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
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Tracks

Longing To Meet You; A Dream Fades Slowly; The Attempt; A Room With No Doors; Loss; The Last Time; Interlude; Whisper You; Arrival.

Personnel

Album Description

Jake Hertzog’s new album Longing to Meet You marks the artist’s ninth studio album and a return to the modern jazz quartet setting. The new record is an intensely personal love-letter to Hertzog’s daughter and a musical journey through the emotional process of IVF. “After several years of experiments and musical explorations in jazz-adjacent idioms, I’m so excited to present this new quartet record” said Hertzog “music has always been my mode of expression, and this music was the result of a profound life-changing experience of the journey to become a father”. The record pairs Hertzog with an all-star band that first came together during their collective time at the Manhattan School in New York. “From beginning to end each track takes the listener through the many frustrations and jubilations of their complex and often painful journey of infertility that so many families experience” Jake added. “The music is highly allegorical, with elements of harmony and form representing stages of the process. I hope this music can express my inner journey and share that with the listener.” Longing to Meet You is the first is an upcoming trio of recordings by Hertzog who is currently working on a large ensemble concerto for jazz guitar and jazz philharmonic (big band and... strings) funded through the Jazz Road Creative Residency program from South Arts, and a project of Ozark folk music funded through an Artist 360 Grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance. Both additional projects will be released in the next two years.

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