Bergonzi, Jerry: Spotlight On Standards

Jerry Bergonzi: Spotlight On Standards - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Spotlight On Standards

Artist:

Jerry Bergonzi

Label:

Savant

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

633842215822

Genre:

Jazz

Release Date:

2016-07-15

Number of Discs:

1

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 format after a long hiatus from it. From the opening track, Cy Coleman's "Witchcraft" with it's hypnotic organ vamp and "bewitching" 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.

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