Rob Davis

Matt Jorgensen + 451: Hope

by Dan McClenaghan
March 18, 2004

Do they still give out Grammy Awards for best cover art? If so, here's a nominee: a peaceful retriever in repose, chin on the floor, captured in a sanguine tone on Matt Jorgensen + 451's Hope. A great cover, of course, does not a successful CD make. It's the music. The music on Hope--a sax and rhythm section outing with additional sax on five of the eleven tunes, with the warm tones of a trombone on ...