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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 ...

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Justin Chart: The Scarlet Jazz Room

Read "The Scarlet Jazz Room" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 11, 2022

Justin Chart is an award winning singer-songwriter and an accomplished jazz saxophonist. On his spontaneously created pieces Chart often collaborates with a rotating cast of like-minded sidemen. The resulting music is as sophisticated and intricately structured as carefully notated compositions. Chart, once again, showcases his unique artistic approach with the cinematic and enchanting The Scarlet Jazz ...

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Justin Chart: Live In Los Angeles

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by Hrayr Attarian
January 3, 2022

Los Angeles-based, award-winning, musician Justin Chart is both an accomplished singer-songwriter and a superlative saxophonist. Chart infuses his jazz work with a distinct melodicism and his pop songs with a crackling spontaneity. A number of his releases are recorded in one take and are mostly improvised while eschewing dissonance and embracing lyricism. His tenth, Live in ...

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Live In Los Angeles

By Justin Chart

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: A Twilight Minor; Swing With a Platinum Ring; Rame; These Cats Are a Strayin; Funky Feelin; No One Knows; Saudade; Fingers & Humdingers; My Amorous Alto Justin Chart; Conversing With Los Angeles and I'm in Deep; The Seraphic Sound; The Right Moves.

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Intuition

By Justin Chart

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: At 3 a.m; The Sideral Sound; I Didn't Then I Did; Just Like That ; Our Hands; Always In All Ways; Somethin' To Say; Diamond Of The Night; These Changes Divine; Cherry Tonalin; Blue Will Get You; Pleased After A Day's Work.

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COLORSTORM VI

By Justin Chart

Label: Decca Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. The Wanderlust Whirlwind 08:47 2. Can't Fly so I Play 09:10 3.Facin' Thunder 06:29 4.Overtones over You 07:12 5.Here Is for You 07:38 6 .In Between the Jazz 04:26 7. Golden Life 06:07 8. This Hit's Me Right Where I Live 06:21 9. Write On 08:30 10. Yeah Man, I'm Diggin' That 06:04 11.A Trick of Light 07:14

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COLORSTORM IV

By Justin Chart

Label: Decca Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. A Salacious Slice 2. Short Spell 3. Harmonic Transcendence 4. Like A Memory 5. 10,000 Notes 6. Purple Pleasure 7. Kool Continuum 8. Awaiting Tonalite 9. The Truth In The Music 10. Slammin' Man.

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Kool Continuum

July 20, 2021

Album: COLORSTORM IV
By Justin Chart
Label: Decca Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 8:41

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COLORSTORM

By Justin Chart

Label: Iron Mountain Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Colorstorm Justin Chart 15 tracks 2 hrs 09 mins 03/02/2020 CD 1 1. The Obliquity of the Ecliptic 09:00 2. Teal in Time 06:00 3. Amethyst Afterglow 08:36 4. Jazzure 11:27 5. Taken by Storm 09:34 6. Bluetiful 08:36 7.Electricity's Eminence 10:23 8. Faster Than Eyes Could Ever See 10:58 9. Skyshine 04:36 CD 2 1.Colorstorm 10:14 2.Blue Blizzard 09:04 3 .Lilac Luster 04:43 4. Winter Woman 05:58 5. The Chartreuse Cyclone 09:34 6. Shimmer Storm

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Justin Chart

Born: February 6, 1970

Universal Music Group artist Justin Chart is a visionary alto saxophonist and a prominent figure in the modern West Coast jazz scene. Jazz Europe rates Justin Chart as one of the top ten modern day hard bop saxophone players in the world. Known in jazz circles as “The Blizzard” for his explosive playing and intricate compositional changes, Chart is a trailblazer who is one of the modern masters of Hard-Bop jazz. His unique style is characterized by a seductive yet familiar vibe, offering a harmonic edge that remains deeply rooted in the jazz lineage while standing out as distinctly modern in color.