Bluesthetic

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Cat No: SSR2202

Release Date: 27 May 2022

Label: Smoke Sessions / House Arrest

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 195269136765

Genres: Jazz

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Trombone master Steve Davis assembled a remarkable sextet with a three-decade shared history for his latest album, Bluesthetic--guitarist Peter Bernstein, vibraphonist Steve Nelson, pianist Geoffrey Keezer, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Willie Jones III.

On each of his three previous releases for Smoke Sessions, trombonist Steve Davis assembled a stellar sextet featuring some of modern jazzâ€™s most vaunted players. With Bluesthetic, Davis has done it again, but this time with a twist â€“ instead of enlisting fellow horn players, heâ€™s expanded the ensembleâ€™s harmonic possibilities with guitarist Peter Bernstein and vibraphonist Steve Nelson. In the process heâ€™s reunited the frontline from his 1998 album VIBE UP! for the first time in more than twenty years.

A frontline that stellar needs an equally gifted rhythm section, and Davis has surpassed himself in putting together a powerhouse one: pianist Geoffrey Keezer, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Willie Jones III. Beyond simply gathering six of the most acclaimed jazz voices of their generation, however, the band represents a web of musical relationships stretching back decades â€“ which only makes already vibrant music that much more compelling.

â€œRecording this album was kind of like a family reunion,â€� Davis says. â€œIt was an absolute joy to have this whole group together.â€�

The hybrid title of Bluesthetic captures something essential about Davisâ€™ music, a combination of the appreciation of artful beauty suggested by â€œaestheticâ€� combined with the foundational influence of the blues. â€œWith my music, the blues is always going to find its way in there,â€� Davis explains. â€œI'm never going to stray too far from having some element of that language. I can't help it; itâ€™s what I love. And it definitely represents how this particular band approaches jazz music.â€�
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