Kelsley Grant - Horizon Song (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

It is possible, if you live in a city, to go out on most nights of the week to witness live jazz. If the city you live in is of sufficient size, you’ll even have a range of options as to the kind of jazz you’ll get to experience. Go to a tastefully lit place on the first floor of a condo building in a formerly dodgy neighbourhood to watch five performers in tailored coats recreate, with note-for-note fidelity, the repertoire of the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Or go to a city-sponsored festival in a park and nod along to winding jazz-funk jams as toddlers dance around you. Or go to a basement bar that hosts PWYC free-jazz performances in which the performers compete with each other to see who can run farthest away from recognizable melody. Or go to a century-old concert hall to watch a buzzy octet burn through an original repertoire that somehow draws from all of these musical possibilities.

Jazz, which used to turn itself inside out every half-decade or so, has become a genre of music for which all of its moments of revolution exist simultaneously. It’s like a comic book multiverse, where the slim Batman of the 1940s battles Gotham’s underworld alongside the hulked-out Batmen of the 1990s and 2000s. Except in this case, Batman is wielding a sax, and his superpower is the ability to improvise solos in 7/8 time.

TRACKLIST

1. Kelsley Grant - Horizon Song
2. Kelsley Grant - The Tamarind Tree
3. Kelsley Grant - Beautiful Shira
4. Kelsley Grant - In This Time
5. Kelsley Grant - Punctuality
6. Kelsley Grant - A Tune For Joel
7. Kelsley Grant - Mason, How I Love You
8. Kelsley Grant - The Problems of Your Future
9. Kelsley Grant - Eight Across



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