Jazz Articles about Jon Hamar

Jon Hamar: Hymn

by C. Michael Bailey
September 20, 2012

Origin Arts bassist Jon Hamar effects an intimate trio with alto saxophonist Todd DelGiudice and pianist Geoffrey Keezer on Hymn. Heard most recently, prior to this date, on Richard Cole's Inner Mission (Origin Records, 2007), Hamar's Hymn is heavy on introspective yet muscular originals, as Hamar also chooses some sturdy standards upon which to improvise. Hamar closes is disc with a swinging reading of Lew Brown's “Comes Love." Keezer rolls his fingers just right in the introduction, ...