New Release: It Gets Better from Jeff Rupert

 

New Release:  It Gets Better from Jeff Rupert
Release Date: September 6, 2024
Label: Rupe Media
Website:  www.facebook.com/JeffRupertSax

Saxophonist, composer, and leader Jeff Rupert has enjoyed four and a half decades of performing, producing, creating, and teaching jazz styles from swing to blues, from straight-ahead to smooth, from big band dancehall to post bop fervor.  His 2024 project It Gets Better contains 6 originals by Rupert and 3 jazz standards.  Taking a look at his original "Lana Turner," Rupert illustrates his forte for cool jazz atmospheres as the smooth furls of his sax float above the slow, steady, bopping swells of Peter Washington's bass and Joe Farnsworth's drums, while the paddling motions of Kenny Barron's piano keys sow harmonious formations, foddering the cushion-laden climate.  There is an overall amiable presence throughout the assortment of jazz styles on display, whispering gently in the listener's ear through his iteration of Jimmy Van Heusen's gem "Like Someone in Love," and mobilizing feel good vibrations across the title track, an original number by Rupert.  The writhing movements of his sax ambling across "Nowhere To Go But Up," a tune written by Marc Shaiman, projects a picturesque vista in the listener's mind, then cruises into the swinging gyrations of "Not My Blues," another of Rupert's originals, displaying a tight interplay among the quartet.  The project, which features musicians of like minds, shines a spotlight on various styles of jazz while equally putting the listener in an affable mood.

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