Jazz Articles about Jeremy Pelt

About Jeremy Pelt

Live Review

The Power Quintet at Jazz Standard

by Dan Bilawsky
December 5, 2016

The Power Quintet Jazz Standard New York, NY December 3, 2016 The age of the collective-minded outfit in jazz is upon us. While the concept of democratically-driven bands is hardly new or unique, more and more artists seem to be taking to the idea with gusto, pooling their talents and resources for the greater good. Such artistic and business arrangements give everybody an opportunity to share in the responsibility load, play multiple ...

Album Review

Jeremy Pelt: Face Forward, Jeremy

Read "Face Forward, Jeremy" reviewed by Luca Casarotti

by Luca Casarotti
August 8, 2014

Trombettista, produttore, didatta (occupazione quest'ultima che l'ha visto attivo anche in Italia con diverse partecipazioni ai seminari estivi di Siena Jazz), Jeremy Pelt ha alle spalle decenni di militanza in formazioni di bop e post-bop: esordì con la Charles Mingus Big Band, e si esibisce tutt'ora con la Village Vanguard Orchestra e con la Duke Ellington Big Band. Dall'inizio degli anni 2000, a questo suo percorso nella tradizione jazzistica se n'è affiancato un secondo, improntato all'esplorazione del funk ...

Album Review

Jeremy Pelt: Face Forward, Jeremy

Read "Face Forward, Jeremy" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 8, 2014

Venerable trumpeter Jeremy Pelt takes another step out of the modern jazz schema, expanding upon Water and Earth (HighNote Records, 2013) with his young band by forging an acoustic- electric jazz wonderland, swarming with colorful fabrications and capacious sonic environs. Featuring works abetted with strings, electronics, vocals and free-flight jazz-based improvisations, the program is heightened by Pelt's sparkling bop lines occasionally treated with echo and reverb processes. Moreover, the ensemble projects great depth, complemented by prudent implementations of electronics along ...

Album Review

Jeremy Pelt: Water and Earth

Read "Water and Earth" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
February 26, 2013

Change is often a precursor for innovation. After many years of straddling modern mainstream, and progressive jazz via his burgeoning solo career and first-call session duties, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt leans a few notches toward the jazz-fusion spectrum on Water and Earth. However, the artist doesn't take matters to the extreme and serves up a compellingly divergent track mix, owing patronage to bop and outlying areas of the jazz vernacular. Using trumpet effects in spots, including the dual keyboard attack of ...

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Album Review

Suzanne Pittson: Out of the Hub: The Music of Freddie Hubbard

Read "Out of the Hub: The Music of Freddie Hubbard" reviewed by Wilbert Sostre

by Wilbert Sostre
March 11, 2011

The vocalese and scatting tradition is alive and well in singer Suzanne Pittson. With Out of the Hub: The Music of Freddie Hubbard, Pittson continues to establish herself as one of the best singers on today's jazz scene. Out of the Hub includes tunes written by or associated with trumpet legend Freddie Hubbard, with Pittson writing or co-writing five lyrics, which Hubbard approved just three months before his passing in 2008. To honor Hubbard, Pittson recruited ...

Album Review

Jeremy Pelt: Men of Honor

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 13, 2010

Ora che, dopo Tom Harrell, anche Jeremy Pelt è entrato nella scuderia High Note, l'etichetta può vantare la presenza di due fra i più interessanti trombettisti jazz contemporanei. Pelt è infatti, oltre che solista virtuoso, compositore e leader di grande forza, fra i migliori a trovare ispirazione nella musica di Miles Davis e Freddie Hubbard e svilupparla in un linguaggio del tutto personale. E' nota la sua verve nell'affrontare la carenza di preparazione della critica jazz, meno conosciuta la capacità ...

Album Review

Baptiste Trotignon: Suite...

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 19, 2010

Registrato dal vivo fra Londra e Parigi nel luglio 2009, questo nuovo lavoro del trentaseienne pianista francese ci restituisce di fatto, per i primi otto dei dieci brani (quelli che compongono la “Suite..." del titolo), il clima dello studio d'incisione: c'è una chiara ambizione compositiva, una struttura e un linguaggio definiti, privi delle asperità (delle libertà, per più di un verso) che contraddistinguono di regola gli album live. Che poi, alla fin fine, tutto ciò si risolva in un prodotto ...