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Article: Album Review

Jeremy Pelt & Wired: Shock Value: Live at Smoke

Read "Shock Value: Live at Smoke" reviewed by Jim Santella


Born to play the blues and raised on jazz's most recent personality changes, Jeremy Pelt brings fire and passion to his audience while tempering each stroke with the improvisational tools that have grown out of tradition. The trumpeter's wah-wah comments, his low moan caresses and his dizzying romps through bebop heaven gather up a hundred years ...

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Identity

Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2005
Track listing: Re-Invention; Eddie's Story; Seek; Suspicion; Eye of the Beholder; Celestial; Angular; Haiku; Scorpio; Dusk.

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Jeremy Pelt: Identity

Read "Identity" reviewed by Tom Greenland


Jeremy Pelt is a man in search of himself and a sonic identity that will enshrine him in the pantheon of trumpet greats. For the young lions and lionesses of jazz, this is a daunting task, given the hordes of spirits-of-jam-sessions-past that haunt the hallowed halls of jazzdom. Certainly Pelt is a contender: his tone and ...

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Article: Interview

Jeremy Pelt: From Classical, Perhaps One Day to Classic

Read "Jeremy Pelt: From Classical, Perhaps One Day to Classic" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, all of 28 years old, with a commitment to music and a world of talent, appears to have a bright future. He is creative and his trumpet work is both facile and strong-toned. He's willing to work hard and keep developing. How is it he could almost be pigeonholed into being ...

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Jeremy Pelt: Identity

Read "Identity" reviewed by John Kelman


Still on the shy side of thirty, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has already established quite a name for himself, building an impressive body of work collaborating with artists including Ralph Peterson, the Mingus Big Band, and Wayne Shorter. Winner of the Downbeat Critics Poll for Rising Star on trumpet two years running, as well as the Jazz ...

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Jeremy Pelt: Identity

Read "Identity" reviewed by John Dworkin


Most of the best composers, like Ellington and Shorter, have also been great players. The two processes are mutually reinforcing. Jeremy Pelt's Identity shows him to be on this two-fold path. It's all original material performed with Frank LoCrasto on keyboards, Vicente Archer on bass, and Eric McPherson on drums--all on a par of excellence with ...

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Modern Jazz Criticism

Read "Modern Jazz Criticism" reviewed by AAJ Staff


By Jeremy Pelt Some time ago I was having dinner with a musician friend of mine and we started talking about the state of modern jazz criticism. Ever since I can remember, I never understood the profession of criticism. I always thought that everyone's a critic in some way or another, so why ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeremy Pelt: Identity

Read "Identity" reviewed by Jim Santella


A prolific composer, Jeremy Pelt wrote all the pieces for Identity, his fourth album as a leader. His bright trumpet tone and mellow flugelhorn ambience give the session a highly lyrical quality. The quartet drives with a straight-ahead jazz sensibility that emphasizes spirit over technique. That's not to imply Pelt's anything but a superb ...

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Article: Live Review

Jeremy Pelt at Dizzy's

Read "Jeremy Pelt at Dizzy's" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt could have been forgiven if he and his crack quartet had turned in a ho-hum performance Monday, January 12, at Dizzy's in downtown San Diego. The band had just wrapped up a successful four day stay at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, and were, at show time, eight hours away from hitting ...

Album

Close To My Heart

Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2003
Track listing: Weird Nightmare; Excerent; Take Me In Your Arms; 502 Blues (Drinkin' & Drivin'); All My Life; Don't You Know I Care; Pioggia Di Perugia; It's A Beautiful Evening; This Is The Moment; Why Try To Change Me Now?; In Your Eyes.


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