Jeremy Pelt - Tales, Musings and Other Reveries (2015)

Jeremy Pelt's 12th studio album, 2015's Tales, Musings and Other Reveries, finds the trumpeter continuing on his trajectory of making swaggering yet artful and introspective post-bop. The album follows up his equally compelling releases, 2013's Water and Earth and 2014's Face Forward, Jeremy. As with those albums, Pelt succeeds here in combining all of his disparate stylistic inspirations — from swinging, straight-ahead jazz to expansive modalism to soulful fusion — into one cohesive sound that is never anything but organic. Even his bold choice of using two drummers here, Billy Drummond (heard in the right channel) and Victor Lewis (heard in the left), never gets in the way of creating utterly lithe, buoyant, and often gorgeous music. Also joining Pelt here are pianist Simona Premazzi and maverick, genre-defying bassist Ben Allison, who add their own forward-thinking touches to Pelt's sophisticated compositions.

Tracklist:

01. Glass Bead Games
02. Vonetta
03. Harlem Thoroughfare
04. Everything You Can Imagine Is Real
05. Ruminations On Eric Garner
06. I Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her
07. Nephthys
08. The Old Soul Of The Modern Day Wayfarer

Personnel:

Jeremy Pelt (trumpet);
Simona Premazzi (piano);
Victor Lewis, Billy Drummond (drums).