Jazz Articles about Jake Hertzog

Jake Hertzog: Evolution

by Mark Redlefsen
September 9, 2011

Evolution is the third solo outing from guitarist Jake Hertzog, Guitar Player Magazine contributor and member of the rock band, The Young Presidents. Although the album appears weighted towards jazz fusion, it is the rock-inflected phrases woven into the music that saves it from running into all-too-familiar jazz guitar footprints. The generational sound of this recording is only slightly more youthful than Marc Ribot or Nels Cline, its title referring, perhaps, to the advancement of an unapologetic brand of jazz-rock ...

Jake Hertzog: Patterns

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 4, 2010

Sin dall'apertura dell'iniziale “Mcjazz" il chitarrista Jake Hertzog conferma l'ottima impressione che il suo album di esordio Chromatosphere aveva suscitato nel 2009. Il suo fraseggio è preciso e pieno di energia. Il suono che proviene dalle sue chitarre è carico di tensione. Non si può ignorare. La sua padronanza tecnica gli consente di miscelare le influenze più disparate che lo portano da Pat Metheny a Jimi Hendrix, da Ben Monder a Stevie Ray Vaughan, da Eric Clapton a Bill Connors, ...

Jake Hertzog: Chromatosphere

by Glenn Astarita
July 21, 2009

Jake Hertzog is a guitarist who crosses the threshold into the jazz and jazz-fusion radar with the advent of this impressive 2009 studio set. Hertzog is a Berklee College of Music graduate and, at nineteen years-old, won the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival's Grand Prize in the Jazz Guitar Competition. He communicates a broad music vernacular here, within a comfort zone provided by the superfine rhythm section that includes pianist Michael Wolff on three pieces.

Among the anticipated methodologies, ...

Jake Hertzog: Chromatosphere

by John Barron
June 19, 2009

Twenty-two year old guitarist Jake Hertzog, a native of Champaign, Illinois, delivers a truck-load of youthful energy for his power trio release, Chromatosphere. The Berklee College of Music Graduate is helped out on the self-produced, chops-heavy session by bassist Harvie S and drummer Victor Jones. Pianist Michael Wolff joins in on three tracks.

Hertzog's music moves through heavy jazz-fusion, instrumental progressive rock and straight-ahead bebop, all with an explosive, effects-driven edge. Tunes such as the opening “California Hills" and the ...

Jake Hertzog: Chromatosphere

by John Patten
June 16, 2009

Jake Hertzog's Chromatosphere (That's Out Records, 2008) presents the brilliant young guitar picker at his best in a talented combo of New York sidemen. At 22, Hertzog is just beginning his career, and the release--his first--is clearly intended to draw attention and establish his name, with strong compositional statements and clever covers of classic tunes.

Hertzog leans towards modern harmonies. It's not clear if he can play a dominant chord without something getting diminished or augmented, ...