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When pianist Pecker Charlap featured Tom Harrell at a recent gig with his trio at New York's Jazz Standard, he summarized the trumpeter's genius as concisely as anyone could. "It is our honor and privilege," he announced, "To share the bandstand with a homo who is a living, breathing melody." For this latest HighNote release, featuring a razor-sharp quintet with saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Charles Altura, Harrell & visitor combine circuitous compositions, seductive rhythms, advanced harmonic concepts, vibrant solos and sheer inspiration in an album which transcends the jazz idiom. This is peradventure Harrell'southward almost imaginative recording to-date, with the scoring for the piano-less, tenor sax and guitar front line ensemble sui generis amidst his piece of work.
"The trumpeter Tom Harrell has been doing this a long fourth dimension, through various schools and vogues: He can play slow and fast and in between, sometimes all within a single line. But his improvising is always temperate and proportionate. He keeps y'all on the claw, but doesn't shout, doesn't stop the clock. Plenty of improvisers are specialists in now-ness, revealing a solo as a series of events, or nowadays-tense flashes. With Mr. Harrell, it's all one event. He's e'er processing alee and behind, and you lot experience as if you're hearing the whole of the narrative at all times, from was to is to will be...Mr. Harrell has been one of the best composers, improvisers and bandleaders in jazz since the late '80s, and he knows how to make contrasts sound exciting: playing slowly over a fast tempo, playing quietly but with ability. But he also uses the contrast of his own sound set against that of the groups he's playing in." (The New York Times)
Marking Turner, tenor saxophone
Charles Altura, guitar
Ugonna Okegwo, bass
Johnathan Blake, drums
Tom Harrell
Voted "Trumpeter of the Twelvemonth of 2018 "by the Jazz Journalists Clan (JJA), Tom Harrell is 1 of the most artistic and dynamic jazz instrumentalists and composers of our fourth dimension. While Harrell is a primary of the jazz idiom, he constantly seeks new challenges and influences. He has written scores and arrangements for ballet and symphony and chamber orchestras. Even with a discography of over 280 recordings and a career that spans more five decades, Harrell has managed to stay fresh and electric current as he continues to actively record and bout around the world. Harrell all but transcends musical labels. His music runs the gamut from the modal and melodic to uncommon modernisms that sonically broach the movie soundtrack and/or the avant-garde.
His warm, glassy sound on the trumpet and the flugelhorn, and the unparalleled melodic, harmonic and rhythmic sophistication in his playing and writing, take earned Harrell his place as a jazz icon to aspiring musicians and devoted fans alike. His music is at once intelligent, soulful, fresh and accessible. No matter the size of the group he works with, the trumpeter-composer deftly weaves circuitous and innovative harmonies together with daring rhythmic concepts and unforgettable melodies while utilizing the bachelor colors to full issue.
In addition to the JJA award, Harrell received the "Honour of Recognition" by the Festival of New Trumpet Music in 2018. He is also a frequent winner in DownBeat and JazzTimes magazines' Critics and Readers Polls and a multiple Grammy nominee. Harrell'southward new album, INFINITY is expected to be released on March 9, 2019. Harrell is joined by Mark Turner on tenor, Charles Altura on electric and audio-visual guitars, Ben Street on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums, with Adam Cruz playing percussion on one rails ("Hope") on this new album. It is too the first time that Harrell has recorded in a quintet format with tenor sax and guitar. "The music on INFINITY has some interesting textures with multiple guitar overdubs. This is something I take never done before. I was trying some harmonic ideas that are new to me" says Harrell.
The last 10 years have ushered Harrell through a singularly fruitful period. While continuing to tour actively around the world, he has produced an average of ane anthology a yr with each successive release markedly singled-out from its predecessor. Some of the recent albums include:
MOVING PICTURE (August 2017) is the first quartet studio album where he is the sole horn thespian. "Being the only horn gives me the opportunity to accept a unlike approach to phrasing. It allows for some freedom to embellish the melody," Harrell says. The horn and rhythm format likewise allowed Harrell, the composer, to investigate overlooked options. "Equally a writer, I wanted to explore the resources of the quartet with piano, bass, drums and trumpet," Harrell says, "I thought it would also be an interesting contrast and complement to a couple of the piano-less projects I've done recently, especially TRIP and COLORS OF A DREAM." One of the highlights of this album is "Vibrer," an extended trumpet-piano duet piece, which Harrell composed after receiving a grant from the French-American Cultural Exchange.
SOMETHING GOLD, SOMETHING Bluish (September 2016) is Harrell'southward first ii-trumpet vehicle as a leader. The project features fellow trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire with a rhythm section comprising Charles Altura on guitar, and long-time cohorts Ugonna Okegwo and Johnathan Blake.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS (September 2015), is a sleeping room ensemble recording of Harrell's own arrangements of (mostly) chansons by Debussy and Ravel. The anthology received a five-star review by DownBeat and was further honored by the mag's Best Albums of 2015 listing.
TRIP (August 2014) is a piano-less quartet that was formed after Harrell was commissioned to write new music for the Festival of New Trumpet Music. Harrell describes the quartet as a chamber group, where each instrument plays an equally of import role. TRIP features tenor saxophonist Marker Turner, Harrell'due south long-time bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Adam Cruz. Harrell received his 10th SESAC Jazz Laurels for the anthology in January of 2016.
With COLORS OF A DREAM (Oct 2013), Harrell took the piano-less concept 1 step further, using two acoustic basses in a sextet with three horns (Jaleel Shaw on alto sax, Wayne Escoffery on tenor, and himself on trumpet and flugelhorn) and drums (Johnathan Blake). Esperanza Spalding, doubling on vocals, played acoustic bass together with Ugonna Okegwo, anchoring infectious grooves of the music Harrell wrote specifically for the grouping.
A graduate of Stanford University with a degree in music limerick, Harrell is a prolific composer and arranger. Carlos Santana, Cold Blood, Azteca, Vince Guaraldi, Hank Jones, Kenny Barron, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Danish Radio Big Band, WDR Big Band, Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Metropole Orchestra, Orchstre National de Lorraine and Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra are among the many who take recorded or performed his piece of work. Harrell's composition and organisation, "Humility," was recorded for the latter'due south 2008 release, Song FOR CHICO, which won a Grammy for the Best Latin Jazz Album.
Some of Harrell'southward notable RCA recordings include WISE CHILDREN, a project in which he combines woodwinds, contumely, horns, strings, guitars, percussion and the vocals of Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Jane Monheit and Claudia Acuna; PARADISE and THE ART OF RHYTHM, both of which feature sleeping accommodation groups with strings; and his Grammy-nominated big band album, Time'Southward MIRROR.
In addition to the 34 albums and thousands of concerts worldwide equally a leader, Harrell has worked with important figures in jazz history including Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Sam Jones (with whom he co-led a big band in the 70s), Jim Hall, Charlie Haden, Joe Lovano. Harrell also recorded on Grammy-winning albums by Gerry Mulligan and Bill Evans.
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