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Hermon Mehari

Hermon Mehari’s sophomore album as a leader, “A Change For the Dreamlike”, takes on a more personal tone. Written and recorded in a barn in the French countryside during le confinement, it shows only hints at the aesthetic set by his debut album. The songs are play like personal journal entries, versions and visions of wishes, fantasies, and memories. Together they create a kind of modern mixtape of dreams, in every sense of the word, in which the trumpet is a vulnerable presence. The project features a number of incredible musicians: Tony Tixier, Peter Schlamb, Ryan J. Lee, Kae Dilla, DeAndre Manning, Hugo LX, Karl McComas-Reichl, Jeff Hill and Zach Morrow. Although he already had a growing reputation, the success of Mehari's debut album ,"Bleu", put him concretely on the musical map

In the Eyes of the Whale

By MICHELANGELO SCANDROGLIO

Label: Auand Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Noah; In the Eyes of the Whale; Bernard War; Disappearing Part I; Disappearing Part II; I Kill Giants; When the Glimpes Are True.

A Jazz Immuno-Booster: Part 8

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

The immuno-booster series is back. After all and, sadly, the pandemic is everything but over so our need for soothing and uplifting music is greater than ever. As usual, we've asked a number of prominent jazz musicians to share with our readers the music they rely for encouragement. For this instalment the selectors were ...

Hermon Mehari, Ezra Collective, Zappa for piano & New Releases

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

The fusion of different musical cultures and genres is at the heart of this edition of Mondo Jazz, where the works of Frank Zappa are given the solo piano treatment by Dave Hartl, Mats Öberg and Stefano Bollani, where a Kansas City expat in Paris, trumpeter Hermon Mehari, explores both his Eritrean roots and his urban ...

Hermon Mehari, Mose Allison, Jason Palmer and More

By JOE DIMINO

Neon Jazz has spent the last three months interviewing jazz musicians from around the globe on how they are dealing with this global pandemic. This week we open with a trumpeter that has deep Kansas City roots and now resides in Paris. Hermon Mehari released his new album A Change for the Dreamlike and we profile ...

Michelangelo Scandroglio: In the Eyes of the Whale

By NERI POLLASTRI

Tra i non pochi nuovi talenti che la penisola sforna nel campo del jazz, un posto di rilievo spetta al ventiquattrenne contrabbassista toscano Michelangelo Scandroglio, qui alla prima prova da leader alla testa di una formazione internazionale a struttura variabile composta da giovani talenti. Il programma del disco prevede sette composizioni originali, tutte a ...

Nuova Generazione I-Jazz: Vocione e Scandroglio Group alla Sala Vanni di Firenze

By NERI POLLASTRI

Vocione e Michelangelo Scandroglio Group Firenze Sala Vanni 25.1.2020 Il primo concerto della serie prevista per valorizzare le band selezionate dal progetto Nuova Generazione promosso da I-Jazz si è svolto presso la Sala Vanni di Firenze, in programma due dei cinque gruppi vincenti: Vocione, il duo composto dalla vocalist Marta Raviglia ...

Vijay Iyer, Max Moran and more

By JOE DIMINO

This week we begin with Vijay Iyer playing music from Far From Over, the powerful release he has recorded with his Sextet and profiling their show in Kansas City at The Gem Theater headlining a stellar night of jazz that was kicked off by a performance with Hermon Mehari and Logan Richardson. We also focus on ...

Matt Kane: Acknowledgement

By DON PHIPPS

A hard-charging affair interlaced with charm, Matt Kane's Acknowledgement, surely stands as an homage to some of the jazz giants associated with jny: Kansas City. Three of the compositions were penned by Bobby Watson, who presently calls Kansas City home [and is Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Missouri--Kansas City (UMKC) Conservatory of Music], ...

Bleu

By HERMON MEHARI

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Tatra; Eleven Thirteen (Une Nuit Noire); Don't Ya Think (Interlude); Moment's Notice; Awakening; Cold; Sunset Park; Our Journey Revisited; I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face; We Love.