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Night Heat

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Forward Face Grace; We Got Somethin Goin On; Notes to Myself; Scatter Good Seed in The Fields; Somewhat of A Character; Pearl Was; Bassment; Forthright; Calling Evans; Make The Grade.

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Justin Chart: Night Heat

Read "Night Heat" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
November 14, 2024

Saxophonist Justin Chart is known for his cinematic, entirely improvised, live sessions. A stalwart of the Los Angeles, and Southern California, jazz scene, Chart has several superb albums to his credit. His 2024 record, Night Heat, maintains the same level of sophistication and spontaneity. It is culled from two separate appearances with different sidemen and consists ...

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Justin Chart: Keep The Blue

Read "Keep The Blue" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 8, 2024

Not all entirely improvised music necessarily embraces dissonance and atonality, however stimulating that may be. Saxophonist Justin Chart is famous for spontaneously creating entire sets, whether in the studio or in live settings, that are firmly rooted in mainstream sounds. His output is consistently cinematic and absorbing with a mysterious aura. His Keep the Blue is ...

Album

Right On !

By Justin Chart

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Chart's Canvas 5:04; 2. Some Slice 4:51; 3. The Spectral Halflight 4:37; 4. Go on Take a Bite 6:12; 5. In Turquoise Time 6:21; 6. Vistas of Glory 4:05; 7. Grinder 5:02; 8. Right On! 4:51;

Album

PROSPER

By Justin Chart

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Love on Lexington 5:07; 2. PROSPER 4:08; 3. A Slice of Entice 3:37; 4. Another Apple 3:41; 5. Essence of Eminence 4:48; 6. The Best is Yet to Come 4:36 7. Use it Wisely 4:17; 8. Pale Gold and Faded Green 4:48; 9. A Groove I Approve 5:40; 10. I See Lee 4:26;

Album

Keep The Blue

By Justin Chart

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Woodnote; A Blast From The Fast; .A Tribes Vibe; Baritone Bravado; Blue Perspective; The 6th Just Is; Breaktime; Excursion To Then; Desiderium; Give and Remember; One Moment at A Time; 3:59 It's About To Happen.

Album

The Midnight People

By Justin Chart

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: A Blaze Of Well Being; Welcome To The Midst; A Rose Tinted Realm; Lettin' Go; The Tale Was Told; Lickity Split; She Absorbed Him; One Pure Star; With The Bunch; The Midnight People.

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The Scarlet Jazz Room

By Justin Chart

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: An Answer Of Balance; The Gallant Game; Through Reticent Windows; Knowing Pleasure Is Flowing; Eros At Eventide; Ever My Knight; With Passion And Wonder; Shape Of My Shade; A Jazz Life.

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Justin Chart: The Midnight People

Read "The Midnight People" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
June 3, 2022

Saxophonist Justin Chart is an inventive and versatile musician who spontaneously creates mellifluous and enthralling soundscapes. Leading a synergistic band of like-minded sidemen. Chart excels in live improvisations that are simultaneously free as well as charmingly accessible. His output in the third decade of the century has been prolific without sacrificing artistic vision. The Midnight People ...

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Justin Chart: The Scarlet Jazz Room

Read "The Scarlet Jazz Room" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
May 7, 2022

Improvisation is one of the key elements of jazz, and it isomething listeners expect to hear in most performances. However, it is often a part of the overall composition, which is based around a central melody. But saxophonist Justin Chart takes improvisation a step further with The Scarlet Jazz Room. This album relies almost entirely on ...