Tom Gershwin - Wellspring (2025) [Official Digital Download]

For trumpeter and composer Tom Gershwin, living in Vermont’s bucolic Northeast Kingdom means that the idea of a wellspring is much more than a rich metaphor. Gershwin needs travel no farther than the woods directly behind his house to chance upon an actual wellspring, where even in the deepest winter – and in Northern Vermont, the winters can get very deep, indeed – water still flows, a ceaseless source of nourishment and renewal for the natural environment.

On his stunning new album, Wellspring, Gershwin draws evocative inspiration from that constant, close-to-home reminder that the currents of energy and life continually flow through and around us, needing only to be tapped into and meditated upon in order to be channeled into vibrant creation. For Gershwin, music itself is a wellspring, offering a boundless supply of vitality, replenished by its own undercurrents of tradition and history.

“The wellspring became a really powerful image for me,” Gershwin explains, “celebrating the process of renewal, transformation, and regeneration of energy. I realized it’s one of the clearest ways to describe how music moves me when it resonates.”

Wellspring convenes a stellar quintet largely composed of the bandleader’s longtime collaborators. Gershwin has counted saxophonist Mike Bjella as one of his closest friends for more than 20 years; the two also share the frontline on Gershwin’s 2018 sextet release, Our Season. Guitarist Perry Smith was a classmate at NYU, where he studied with John Scofield, and paired with Gershwin for the latter’s intimate debut album, Sweet Pastimes. Drummer Colin Stranahan, winner of the 2012 Thelonious Monk Drum Competition, is a fellow Colorado native whose path would cross with Gershwin’s often during their earliest days in music.

TRACKLIST

1. Tom Gershwin - Let Be
2. Tom Gershwin - Wellspring
3. Tom Gershwin - Passages
4. Tom Gershwin - Belong Here
5. Tom Gershwin - Embers
6. Tom Gershwin - & You
7. Tom Gershwin - Counter Earth's Turn
8. Tom Gershwin - Still



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