Home » Search Center » Results: HighNote Records
Results for "HighNote Records"
With Strings
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Gently; Dreamsville; Some Other Time; Lonely Woman; Slow, Hot Wind; The Thrill Is Gone.
Ascension
By Jeremy Pelt
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ascension; Mr. Willis; Involuntary Servitude; Twin Towers; No Words Needed; Tulsa; Iron Man;
For the Kids; Birdie’s Bounce.
Black Art Jazz Collective: Ascension
by Ian Patterson
The name has obvious political resonance. Indeed, the raison d'être of the Black Art Jazz Collective, the sextet founded by Wayne Escoffery, Jeremy Pelt and Jonathon Blake in 2013, is to celebrate African American excellence on the one hand, and--not unrelated--to raise political consciousness on the other. The BAJC's debut album,Presented By The Side Door Jazz ...
Black Art Jazz Collective: Ascension
by Jack Bowers
On Ascension, the Black Art Jazz Collective, a like-minded sextet co-founded in 2012 by trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and saxophonist Wayne Escoffery to salute the artistry of their mentors and musical heroes while moving the idiom forward into the twenty-first century, is unbending in its allegiance to the straight-ahead canon espoused by the architects of modern jazz. ...
Larry Willis: I Fall in Love Too Easily
by Jack Bowers
I Fall in Love Too Easily is subtitled “The Final Session at Rudy Van Gelder's," as it is not only descriptively but literally the last recording session by veteran pianist Larry Willis, who died at age seventy-six in September 2019, one year after the album was completed at the renowned Van Gelder studio in Englewood Cliffs, ...
Dena DeRose: Ode to the Road
by Jack Bowers
To those who may have wondered what ever happened to singer / pianist Dena DeRose, the answer is nothing—and everything. DeRose has lived for the last fifteen years in Graz, Austria, where she is professor of jazz voice at the University of Music and the Performing Arts. She still tours frequently, sometimes returning “home" to the ...
Eric Alexander: With Strings
by Jack Bowers
To paraphrase Cole Porter: “Bird did it, Chet did it... even many vocalists I bet did it..." And now tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander did it--recorded an album with strings, that is. This represents quite a departure for Alexander who is widely known as one of the more emotive and resourceful improvisers on the scene; but so ...
Phoenix Rising
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Phoenix Rising; Kik It; Wichita Lineman; If I Were a Bell; Emily; Love for Sale; My One and Only Love; Lazy Bird; Willow Weep for Me.
Jeremy Pelt, The Artist
By Jeremy Pelt
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Rodin Suite, Pt. 1: L'appel Aux Armes; Rodin Suite, Pt. 2: Dignity and Despair (Burghers of Calais); Rodin Suite, Pt. 3: I Sol Tace (Gates of Hell); Rodin Suite, Pt. 4: Camille Claudel (L'eternel Printemps); Rodin Suite, Pt. 5: Epilogue; Ceramic; Feito; Watercolors; As of Now.
I'm All Smiles
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Young at Heart; I’m All Smiles; Speak No Evil; Besame Mucho; Ugly Beauty; Love Is A Many Splendored Thing; Celebration; Three Views of a Secret; Thermo; Monk’s Mood.
