Jazz Articles about Nick Hempton

About Nick Hempton

Album Review

The workaday details of the business world don't really relate to jazz very much. Boring meetings, piles of paperwork, and endless conference calls have little to do with the in-the-moment magic that surrounds this music, but that doesn't mean that jazz musicians don't know how to get down to business when the tape is rolling. For his Posi-Tone debut, saxophonist Nick Hempton brought his working band back into the studio, and they dive right into the music ...

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Album Review

Nick Hempton: Nick Hempton Band

Read "Nick Hempton Band" reviewed by Bridget A. Arnwine

by Bridget A. Arnwine
May 3, 2009

What happens when you put a drummer from Israel, a bassist from Italy, a Japanese-American pianist from Northern California and a saxophonist from Australia all on one recording? An amalgamation of sound, tempered by richly cultured yet solitary experiences, that amounts to the auditory equivalent of life in New York City. On the self-titled debut release of the Nick Hempton Band, saxophonist/composer/arranger Hempton leads his international tour de force on eight mostly original tracks. The disc opens ...