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Spotlight On Standards

Jerry Bergonzi

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Format: CD

Cat No: SCD2158

Release Date:  14 October 2016

Label:  Savant Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  633842215822

Genres:  Jazz  Modern Postbebop  

  • Description

    On tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi's Savant recording 'Spotlight on Standards' he returns to the organ-tenor trio format after a long hiatus from it.

    From the opening track, Cy Coleman's "Witchcraft" with its 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.

    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.

    Personnel: Jerry Bergonzi (tenor saxophone), Renato Chicco (B-3 organ), Andrea Michelutti (drums)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Witchcraft
      • 2. Bi-Solar
      • 3. Blue Cube
      • 4. First Lady
      • 5. Gabriella
      • 6. Dancing in the Dark
      • 7. Out of Nowhere
      • 8. Come Rain or Come Shine
      • 9. Stella by Starlight