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Guidance & Gratitude

By Zachary Finnegan

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Urban Motion; Deceptive Rhetoric; Guidance & Gratitude; The Angel Tribute; The Movement; Invitation; New Beginnings; Vigorous Pursuit; Perseverance.

Zachary Finnegan: Guidance and Gratitude

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 30, 2024

Guidance and Gratitude from trumpeter and composer Zachary Finnegan delivers nine highly-textured and involving selections. Each selection presents itself with a story background in its title and each is a multi-layered composition, a micro-symphony. It is intelligent music. “Urban Motion" is an energetic, perhaps frantic, landscape with an ostinato six-note bed and a ...

Lenard Simpson

Lenard Simpson is a saxophonist, composer and educator from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lenard was mostly self-taught through high school, but his natural ability and musicianship earned him accolades such as membership in the esteemed Grammy Camp Jazz Session, and an outstanding soloist award at the Mingus Jazz Competition in New York City. Lenard has had the opportunity to play and travel with artists such as pianist and composer-Billy Childs, Kurt Elling, Marquis Hill, and Clayton Cameron. Lenard received a B.M in Jazz performance at Northern Illinois University. While studying at NIU, Lenard was awarded first place in Chicago’s esteemed Luminarts Jazz Competition.