Jeremy Pelt - Jeremy Pelt The Artist (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 239.48 Mb | 45:38 | Cover
Post-Bop, Straight-Ahead Jazz | Label: HighNote Records - HCD 7325
Showcasing a five-part suite based on the work of French sculptor Auguste Rodin, Jeremy Pelt's 2019 album, The Artist, finds the trumpeter translating his love of the visual arts into a set of deeply textured compositions that touch upon harmonically rich modalism, driving post-bop, and lyrical balladry. Beginning with the hypnotic "The Rodin Suite, Pt. 1: L'Appel aux armes," which translates fittingly as "the call to arms," The Artist evokes the '70s jazz of artists like Woody Shaw and Bobby Hutcherson. It's a sound Pelt has long embraced, at least as far back 2013's fusion-influenced Water and Earth, and one that he has increasingly made his own.