Jazz Articles about Jeremy Pelt

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 ...

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 ...

Jeremy Pelt: A Man of Honor

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
April 12, 2010

For the younger generation of jazz musicians, those in their thirties today, the path is not always as smooth and easy as we may think it is. Nobody likes to live in anybody's shadow. Jazz is populated with giants who left their mark and those who look up to them in order to be able to move on. They listen; they internalize; they create something new. That is what jazz is all about: the thrill of the unknown. Comparisons are ...

Jeremy Pelt: Men of Honor

by Joel Roberts
January 13, 2010

The title of firebrand trumpeter Jeremy Pelt's Men of Honor refers to the members of his quintet who, like their leader here, are among the foremost 30-something neo-bop players in jazz today. The album is a follow-up to Pelt's acclaimed November (MAXJAZZ, 2008), which marked this all-acoustic quintet's debut, and came on the heels of a couple of releases that explored a sort of early-1970s electric Miles Davis vibe. Heralded for years as one of the “rising ...

Jeremy Pelt Threefer: Caution! Hard Hat Area!; Relentless & Twilight & Blues

by George Kanzler
December 12, 2009

Gasper BertoncelkCaution! Hard Hat Area!Arabesque2009 Sharel CassityRelentlessJazz Legacy Productions2009 Lisa HiltonTwilight & BluesRecord Label #3Year Jeremy Pelt has become a sought-after sideman and his trumpeting has been tapped for three recording projects here: two auspicious debuts by emerging talents, the other from a veteran West Coast ...

Jackie Ryan: Doozy

by Larry Taylor
November 4, 2009

This two-CD set is vocalist Jackie Ryan's third recording and it's definitely a keeper. On the heels of her 2007 success, You And The Night And The Music (Open Art Productions), which landed on the charts, also appears destined for success.

With her clear, rich voice, Ryan undoubtedly has one of jazz's great vocal instruments--no low-note warble or reedy high notes for her and with a 3-1/2 octave range, she handles each song with aplomb. In addition, she has a ...

Jeremy Pelt and JD Allen: New Leaders at Kennedy Center

by Franz A. Matzner
September 25, 2008

Since first playing together in the early '90s under drummer extraordinaire Winard Harper, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt's and saxophonist JD Allen's paths have crossed several times, as they solidified their places at the forefront of modern jazz. Each now a master technician, innovative composer, and successful bandleader, Pelt recently asked Allen to contribute to the Jeremy Pelt Quintet's latest --November (MAXJAZZ, 2008). They will perform together on October 3, 2008 at the Kennedy Center's KC Jazz Club, in Washington, DC to ...