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The Move
Jasen Weaver
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 00:27
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Tracks
Pauger Street Parade; Inseparable; Risk; A Lil' Ignant; Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans.
Personnel
Jasen Weaver
bass
Steve Lands
trumpet
Rex Gregory
saxophone
Derek Douget
saxophoneShea Pierre
pianoGerald Watkins Jr.
drumsAlbum Description
Jasen Weaver’s new EP, “The Move”, was released in Spring 2025. This project chronicles his life-changing decision to relocate to Europe in 2019 and his efforts to embrace his new cultural surroundings while holding onto his identity as a New Orleanian. Weaver’s compositions on this album deal with themes surrounding hope, uncertainty, homesickness and ultimately, love. It was his desire to be with his partner that led him to Belgium and that deep connection is at the heart of what this EP is about. Recorded at Marigny Studios in New Orleans, “The Move” features some of the most prominent artists on the New Orleans music scene today including: Steve Lands on trumpet, Rex Gregory on alto/soprano saxophones, Derek Douget on tenor saxophone, Shea Pierre on piano/Fender Rhodes and Gerald Watkins on drums. Weaver’s long time friend and collaborator Cliff Hines contributes wild modular synthesizer textures and sampling to the song, “Risk”. The album concludes beautifully on a live recording from a January 2024 concert at the George and Joyce Wein Heritage Center in New Orleans. It was an unplanned performance of the classic standard, “Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?”, performed in duo with Lands. Perhaps one of the most famous songs written about the Crescent City, it has taken on new meaning for Weaver since he has been living in Europe. “The Move” is ultimately the closing of one chapter and the beginning of another for Weaver. Many of these songs were originally written in New Orleans, but they were refined and given a much different context after he left the United States. Hopefully, listeners will be able to feel honesty, vulnerability and evolution in this brief presentation.
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