- Ends & Means
- Tom Tom
- The Song is Ended
- Stable Mates
- Norwegian Wood
- Wingspan
- Thoughts
- Caravan
Vincent Herring - Alto/Sop
Jeremy Pelt - Trumpet (3,6,7 & 8)
Danny Grissett - Piano
Essiet Essiet - Bass
Joris Dudi - Drums
Recorded New Jersey, June 2005
Vincent Herring is a musician
I have always rated highly, but on this showing
he has now developed into the complete master
jazz man. There is not a track that failed
to give me great listening pleasure. I notice
that he also produced the album, once again
the maturity shows through. There are new
pieces, two compositions from drummer Joris
Dudi, standards from the library of Berlin,
Ellington and Lennon & McCartney, plus
jazz standards from Benny Golsen and Mulgrew
Miller. Putting this programme together is
the work of a man who both knows what he wants
to play and what his audience wants to listen
to! What a great relief after so many jazz
albums packed with original compositions which
are only played once, after the album even
the people who wrote them don’t play them!
Vincent Herring has taken
all that has gone before in jazz and developed
an interesting and unique style which has
great melodic content, it must be something
every jazz player would aspire to, but few
manage. The remainder of the group are entirely
complementary to Herring’s playing, Jeremy
Pelt is a fine bebop trumpet player and the
rhythm section perform the whole of their
task with great merit always interesting and
sympathetic to the soloist. There are some
really fine solos from pianist Danny Grissett,
who is a musician I expect to hear a lot more
from in the future.
My congratulations to Vincent
Herring, everything about this album makes
into a must buy for the serious jazz, for
me it puts him up there with the all time
best, not an easy task!
Don Mather
CD Reviews
HighNote HCD7149 
