GENRE: JAZZ / QUARTET

COMPOSERS: original compositions from the members of the group; Felipe Salles, Jeff Holmes, Fumi Tomita, Thomas Giampietro

Jeff Holmes is pianist with the Paul Winter Consort, a multiple NEA Composition grant recipient and leader of the Jeff Holmes Big Band featuring Dawning Holmes, vocals, and Jeff Holmes Quartet (Of One's Own - Miles High Records). Thomas Giampietro has been fortunate to have opportunities to record and perform all over the U.S. with artists such as Jeff Coffin, Tim O'Brien and Casey Driessen. A native of São Paulo, Brazil and an active performer and composer in the U.S. since 1995, Felipe Salles was the 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Composition Fellowship resulting in his latest recording The New Immigrant Experience. Fumi Tomita was active in New York for many years and his latest recording is The Elephant Vanishes: Jazz Interpretations of the Short Stories of Haruki Murakami.

Colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the area of Jazz and African American Music Studies, HGTS brings music to new heights with dynamic original music that explores stylistic variety while balancing improvisational interplay, group dynamics, and arranged ensemble.

'...This is a group of friends making music together. You can hear that their stories are intertwined and this makes the music come alive in a particular way. There is no substitute for familiarity...'

-Jeff Coffin

'Wow, this entry by U of Mass Jazz Faculty...is just a first class endeavor with wonderfully melodic yet some complex original compositions in different 'bags' by all, and great playing no matter what 'bag' they are in! It all holds together well too. When they wanna swing, swing they do, and when it's 'in the pocket' playing, in the pocket it is!
So check this one out from beginning to end to get the full picture!'

-Randy Brecker

Track Listing

• Unintentional Hipness
• Not at All
• Rowley Street
• And Then They Played
• Arrival
• Montana in Minnesota
• Again Says Julia
• Thornbush
• Faith Rewarded

Additional Details

Label: Summit Records

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 55:15 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 04/24/20

UPC: 099402766928