Nedry - In A Dim Light - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Nedry - Condors [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 04/20/2010

There's an old saying that a great jazz musician never plays a song the same way once. That could certainly be said of Jerry Bergonzi. He is an intellectual artist of uncompromising integrity and a bold, original composer. On Jerry's new Savant recording he returns to the organ-tenor trio after a long hiatus from it. From the opening track, Cy Coleman's InchWitchcraftInch with it's hypnotic organ vamp and InchbewitchingInch chord substitutions Jerry gives to the first 8 bars, you know this isn't going to be your parents' organ-tenor gig. Bergonzi and his discmates, Renato Chicco on organ and Andrea Michelutti on drums, take these standards down new harmonic paths and use them as a launching pad for fertile and impressive improvisation. The playing is always intense and distinctive, fresh and spontaneous.

Judit Hernadi - Raadas [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/26/2006