Jeremy Hazel

Artists like Nick Mazzarella, Matt Ulery and Jeremy Cunningham, the members of Meridian Trio, are keeping the Chicago jazz scene alive and as strong as ever. All of them are highly demanded sidemen and also the leaders of their own projects, including the popular Nick Mazzarella Quintet, Matt Ulery’s folkish, chamber jazz group Loom, and the ambient Jeremy Cunningham Quartet. But this triangular combo organized in 2014 by Mazzarella, the group’s composer, is a vehicle for the three musicians to stretch their respective skills and develop new ideas.

GREATEST EVER JUKEBOX LEGENDS takes you back in time to the Fifties and Sixties!
Stack up these four discs and let the 80 tracks transport you to a different time, via the sixties beat boom (represented here by Herman’s Hermits, The Searchers and The Hollies), Atlantic soul (Aretha Franklin, Sam & Dave and The Drifters) and the roots of rock’n’roll in the fifties (Joe Brown, Lonnie Donegan and Rickie Valance).
GREATEST EVER JUKEBOX LEGENDS is a snapshot of a moment in musical history.

This is the first release featuring Aoife with a string quartet. Co-produced by Jeremy Kittel and Aoife, the album was recorded in Brooklyn on the last days of October 2019. The title of the project comes from the Peter Sears poem, “Valentine," which is the final movement of the 3 song suite along with Sears other poems “Night Fishing” and “The Darkness”. Peter Sears (1937-2017), was named the seventh poet laureate of the state of Oregon in 2014. The suite was penned in 2015 by O’Donovan along with Jeremy Kittel and Teddy Abrams, the conductor of the Louisville Symphony Orchestra and premiered at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, OR.

GREATEST EVER JUKEBOX LEGENDS Takes You Back In Time To The Fifties And Sixties!
Stack Up These Four Discs And Let The 80 Tracks Transport You To A Different Time, Via The Sixties Beat Boom (Represented Here By Herman’s Hermits, The Searchers And The Hollies), Atlantic Soul (Aretha Franklin, Sam & Dave And The Drifters) And The Roots Of Rock’n’roll In The Fifties (Joe Brown, Lonnie Donegan And Rickie Valance).GREATEST EVER JUKEBOX LEGENDS Is A Snapshot Of A Moment In Musical History.