What Comes Next

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Cat No: SSR2007CD

Release Date: 16 October 2020

Label: Smoke Sessions / House Arrest

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 888295995399

Genres: Jazz

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The widely acclaimed jazz guitarist Peter Bernstein emerges from quarantine with a scintillating new quartet album, What Comes Next, featuring Grammy-winning pianist Sullivan Fortner (Cecile McLorin Salvant, Roy Hargrove), drummer and frequent collaborator Joe Farnsworth (McCoy Tyner, Wynton Marsalis) and for the first time on one of the guitarist's own sessions by the always exquisite bassist Peter Washington (Bill Charlap, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers).

The set features a series of Bernstein originals including the quarantine penned "What Comes Next" and the haunting "Empty Streets." The rich program also includes Dizzy Gillespie's beloved Con Alma, a beautiful rendition of the elegant Standard and 2020 anthem "We'll Be Together Again," and a joyful, album closing "Newark News," a previously unrecorded calypso written by Sonny Rollins.Although the title certainly echoes the question on the many minds of many-locked away, wary of leaving the house during a global pandemic, divided by politics and protests, all during a fractious U.S.
Presidential election year -Bernstein very deliberately left off the question mark. While the interrogative continues to apply, especially for musicians in a world without gigs, Bernstein set out to make a statement as well."Without the question mark, What Comes Next implies that you have some idea, some intention," Bernstein explains. "That seems like such a huge concept now, but it's inherent to the very idea of playing jazz. It's the basic question that we deal with all the time when we're given the freedom to improvise: now what do I play? What note should come next? Where are we in the conversation? With everybody's lives being put on hold, that idea can be extended beyond the fact of just playing music."
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