Infinity
Tom Harrell (trumpet/flugelhorn), Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Charles Altura (electric & acoustic guitars), Ben Street (bass), Johnathan Blake
Throughout this album...Harrell’s compositions are strong enough to command this demanding audience’s attention, and his solos, and those around him, are shaped to fulfil the expectations of...
Infinity
Tom Harrell (trumpet/flugelhorn), Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Charles Altura (electric & acoustic guitars), Ben Street (bass), Johnathan Blake
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Throughout this album...Harrell’s compositions are strong enough to command this demanding audience’s attention, and his solos, and those around him, are shaped to fulfil the expectations of...
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For this HighNote release, featuring a razor-sharp quintet with saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Charles Altura, Tom Harrell & company combine complex compositions, seductive rhythms, advanced harmonic concepts,
vibrant solos and sheer inspiration in an album which transcends the jazz idiom.
This is perhaps Harrell’s most imaginative recording to-date, with the scoring for the piano-less, tenor sax and guitar front line ensemble sui generis among his work.
When pianist Bill Charlap featured Tom Harrell at a recent gig with his trio at New York’s Jazz Standard, he summarised the trumpeter’s genius as concisely as anyone could. “It is our honor and privilege,” he announced, “To share the bandstand with a man who is a living, breathing melody.”
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Awards and reviews
July 2019
Throughout this album...Harrell’s compositions are strong enough to command this demanding audience’s attention, and his solos, and those around him, are shaped to fulfil the expectations of an audience that enjoys good, solid, in-the-pocket New York style jazz....
August 2019
A throbbing undercurrent runs through this dark set by the most harmonically nuanced trumpet player in jazz, whose phrasing meets the ideal of composition in real time. Altura’s acoustic guitar work adds some sweet moments.
