Alex Sipiagin - trumpet
Diego Rivera - tenor sax
Art Hirahara - piano
Boris Kozlov - bass
Rudy Royston - drums & percussion
The sky is well within reach when trumpet player extraordinaire
Alex Sipiagin sets his sights on the summit and heads
off upward in an Ascent to the Blues for his second release
on Posi-Tone Records. The session features the focused
wizardry of Sipiagin’s incisive technique, gripping tonality
and hard hitting melodicism are countered cleverly against
the curvature of contributions from Diego Rivera on tenor
saxophone, the cool complexities of Art Hirahara on piano,
the steady underpinnings of Boris Kozlov on bass, and the
bombastic metrics of Rudy Royston on drums and percussion.
While the album program remains decidedly straight
forward and rooted in the blues throughout, the music is
also elegantly lyrical and brilliantly evocative of a truly modern
jazz sensibility. With a flawless combination of effortless
mastery and brilliant performances, Sipiagin's “Ascent to the
Blues" reaches steadily upward toward new heights and
provides a clear pathway of inspirational bright moments for
jazz fans everywhere to joyfully ascend again and again.
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