New Release: Wes 101 from Kristen Bromley

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New Release:  Wes 101 from Kristen Bromley
Label:  Kristen R. Bromley Music
Release Date:  April 18, 2025
Website: www.kristenbromley.com

Wes 101 is jazz guitarist-composer Kristen Bromley's fifth installment as a leader and frontwoman. The compilation includes seven originals by Bromley, showcasing her standing as a motivating force in the jazz blues forum.  Her work is a tribute to the legendary jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, applying a modern perspective to his manipulation of octaves. The dynamic quivers in her playing nestles a soft penmanship along her ballad "Cherished Moments," projecting a Latin-imbued aura, ruminating tenderly and reverently, sharing a kindred spirit with Montgomery's timeless nougat "Mistly."  

Moving into a swinging constellation of gyrating keys from Melanie Shore's organ, and a steady surge of bopping knolls by David Ian Baker on bass and Matt Coleman on drums, “Swing It for the Maestro” is an adaptation of Montgomery's work “Bring It On."  Bromley props the tune in shuffling beats and bluesy tints from her guitar, spooling a series of crimped patterns.  "Wahoo" began as a take on Montgomery's "Cariba" but evolved into taking on characteristics of its own, amassing into a bubbly elixir of percolating guitar chords, bowing bass pulls, keys in a rumba-step, and jumpy drums and cymbals.  Bromley's work is noteworthy as a quintessential marriage between jazz with blues, fastening B.B. King's penetrative soul blues with Albert Collins's robust cool blues fingering across the guitar strings.

Musicians:
Kristen R. Bromley – guitar
Melanie Shore – organ
David Ian Baker – bass
Matt Coleman – drums 

Social Media Links:
Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@kristen.r.bromley.musician
Teaching YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.kristen.r.bromleys.academy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kristen.R.Bromley.Music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristen_r_bromley_music

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