Storytelling trumpeter Pelt boldly crosses genres and ages with agile contemporary bop, ballads and spoken word passages.
Jeremy Pelt, a trumpet virtuoso who could have dropped without blinking into classic 1960s Blue Note sessions cut years before he was born, has interlaced his familiar mix of agile contemporary bop and elegant ballads with spoken-word passages on African American jazz life, edited from his own interviews with musicians across the generations. Pelt’s inspiration here is the west African griots’ oral history tradition – but if he has invoked those ancient methods to inspire and inform musicians of colour in 21st-century America, this is nonetheless a jazz album for everyone. Pithy themes and punchy soloing are delivered by Pelt’s quintet, including sometime Robert Glasper bassist Vicente Archer, and fluent young Taiwanese vibraphonist Chien Chien Lu.
Octogenarian bassist Paul West tells Pelt that, as a young man seeking guidance from his father, he was advised to “carry Christ wherever you are”. That devout phrase prompts a stately Pelt ballad that soon sheds solemnity as it shifts gears to genre-crossing swing. Underdog spotlights Pelt’s poise on the most devious post-bop rhythmic twists, while Don’t Dog the Source is waywardly Monk-like, driven by drummer Allan Mednard’s chatteringly arrhythmic accents. But the trumpeter’s storytelling powers as a soloist are at their fullest stretch on A Beautiful (Fucking) Lie – a deceptively breezy tune that gathers force, named after singer-songwriter René Marie’s acerbic quote about being taught American patriotism as an African American child raised under the south’s Jim Crow laws. Pelt might have edited his own voice out of his interviews a little more, but this is a bold jazz attempt at bridge-building in a fragmented age.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/26/jeremy-pelt-griot-this-is-important-review-high-note
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Jeremy Pelt, un virtuoso de la trompeta que podría haberse dejado caer sin pestañear en las sesiones clásicas de Blue Note de los años sesenta, grabadas años antes de que él naciera, ha entrelazado su conocida mezcla de ágil bop contemporáneo y elegantes baladas con pasajes hablados sobre la vida del jazz afroamericano, editados a partir de sus propias entrevistas con músicos de todas las generaciones. La inspiración de Pelt es la tradición de la historia oral de los griots de África occidental, pero si ha invocado esos antiguos métodos para inspirar e informar a los músicos de color de la América del siglo XXI, éste es un álbum de jazz para todos. El quinteto de Pelt, que incluye a Vicente Archer, bajista de Robert Glasper en alguna ocasión, y al joven y fluido vibrafonista taiwanés Chien Chien Lu, ofrece temas concisos y solos con garra.
El octogenario bajista Paul West le cuenta a Pelt que, cuando era joven y buscaba la guía de su padre, le aconsejaron «llevar a Cristo dondequiera que estés». Esa devota frase da pie a una majestuosa balada de Pelt que pronto se despoja de solemnidad al cambiar de marcha hacia un swing que traspasa géneros. Underdog pone de relieve el aplomo de Pelt en los giros rítmicos post-bop más enrevesados, mientras que Don't Dog the Source se asemeja a Monk, impulsado por los acentos arrítmicos y parlanchines del batería Allan Mednard. Pero la capacidad narrativa del trompetista como solista alcanza su máximo esplendor en A Beautiful (Fucking) Lie, un tema aparentemente desenfadado que cobra fuerza y que toma su nombre de la ácida cita de la cantautora René Marie sobre cómo le enseñaron el patriotismo americano cuando era una niña afroamericana criada bajo las leyes Jim Crow del sur. Pelt podría haber eliminado un poco más su propia voz de las entrevistas, pero se trata de un audaz intento jazzístico de tender puentes en una época fragmentada.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/26/jeremy-pelt-griot-this-is-important-review-high-note
Tracks:
01 - Griot
02 - Words by Paul West
03 - Carry Christ Wherever You Are
04 - Words by Larry Willis
05 - Underdog
06 - Words by JD Allen
07 - Don't Dog the Source
08 - Words by Bertha Hope
09 - A Seat at the Table
10 - Words by Harold Mabern
11 - Solidarity
12 - Words by René Marie
13 - A Beautiful (FuCking) Lie
14 - In Spite Of...
15 - Words by Ambrose Akinmusire
16 - Relevance
Credits:
Bass – Vicente Archer
Drums – Allan Mednard (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16)
Engineer, Mixed By – Maureen Sickler
Graphic Design – Irem Ela Yildizeli
Harp – Brandee Younger (tracks: 13)
Mastered By – Katsuhiko Naito
Percussion – Ismel Wignall (tracks: 1, 3, 9, 11)
Photography – RaRe Valverde
Piano, Keyboards – Victor Gould (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16)
Vibraphone – Chien Chien Lu (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16)
Written By, Trumpet, Producer – Jeremy Pelt
Label: HighNote Records, Inc. – HCD 7341
Format:
CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz
https://www.discogs.com/release/18275593-Jeremy-Pelt-Griot-This-Is-Important
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