Jazz Articles about Jeremy Pelt

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Jeremy Pelt and Wired: Shock Value: Live at Smoke

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 14, 2008

Jeremy Pelt è un trombettista poco più che trent’enne che si sta facendo largo nella turbolenta scena musicale newyorkese. Questo album registrato dal vivo allo Smoke ne conferma le doti tecniche e la capacità di muoversi guardando bene avanti, senza dimenticare di dare ogni tanto un’occhiata allo specchietto retrovisore. Accompagnato da un torrido Al Street alla chitarra, da un turbolento Frank LoCrasto alle tastiere (prevalentemente organo Hammond e piano elettrico Fender) e dai due ritmi Gavin Fallow e Dana Hawkins, ...

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Jeremy Pelt and Wired: Shock Value: Live at Smoke

by C. Michael Bailey
October 7, 2007

Imagine a sacred Shinto sand garden beautifully divided up into all of the genres of jazz, rock, and blues. Interconnections between the genres and subgenres are carefully documented, after having been fully researched and verified. Now visualize trumpeter Jeremy Pelt dragging his horn through this garden, marginally alongside a similar set of tracks left by Miles Davis thirty-five years ago. This provides a visual image of Jeremy Pelt and his band WiRED at their March 21-22, 2007 appearance at New ...

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Jeremy Pelt & Wired: Shock Value: Live at Smoke

by Jim Santella
September 18, 2007

Born to play the blues and raised on jazz's most recent personality changes, Jeremy Pelt brings fire and passion to his audience while tempering each stroke with the improvisational tools that have grown out of tradition. The trumpeter's wah-wah comments, his low moan caresses and his dizzying romps through bebop heaven gather up a hundred years of jazz into one big picnic basket filled with seasonal delights. This appearance at New York City's Smoke features six of the leader's original ...

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Jeremy Pelt: Identity

by Tom Greenland
November 5, 2005

Jeremy Pelt is a man in search of himself and a sonic identity that will enshrine him in the pantheon of trumpet greats. For the young lions and lionesses of jazz, this is a daunting task, given the hordes of spirits-of-jam-sessions-past that haunt the hallowed halls of jazzdom. Certainly Pelt is a contender: his tone and technique are equal to that of Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard, two noticeable stylistic influences, and his harmonic conception and compositional flair call to ...

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Jeremy Pelt: From Classical, Perhaps One Day to Classic

by R.J. DeLuke
September 19, 2005

Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, all of 28 years old, with a commitment to music and a world of talent, appears to have a bright future. He is creative and his trumpet work is both facile and strong-toned. He's willing to work hard and keep developing. How is it he could almost be pigeonholed into being “soft" because of one album done with a background of strings? He says that did happen to him for a bit, but ...

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Jeremy Pelt: Identity

by John Kelman
September 5, 2005

Still on the shy side of thirty, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has already established quite a name for himself, building an impressive body of work collaborating with artists including Ralph Peterson, the Mingus Big Band, and Wayne Shorter. Winner of the Downbeat Critics Poll for Rising Star on trumpet two years running, as well as the Jazz Journalist Association's award for one of the Best Emerging Stars, he's developed remarkable cachet in record time.

With the exception of Close to My ...

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Jeremy Pelt: Identity

by John Dworkin
August 27, 2005

Most of the best composers, like Ellington and Shorter, have also been great players. The two processes are mutually reinforcing. Jeremy Pelt's Identity shows him to be on this two-fold path. It's all original material performed with Frank LoCrasto on keyboards, Vicente Archer on bass, and Eric McPherson on drums--all on a par of excellence with Pelt in their playing. This particular group formed just recently, yet it already has sharp rapport. If it stays together, it'll likely become one ...