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bernellj Very well done release from people who have clearly done their homework and know and respect the tradition. The level of authenticity and ability is that of the greats and I honestly feel like I’m listening to an original blue note but in the modern day. This album is straight to the point and swingin like a mf! Favorite track: The Scene is Clean.
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Nightmare 01:25
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Roccus 07:14
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Epistrophy 03:29
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Saucer Eyes 04:30
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Stoned 07:09
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Where Are We 00:55
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Four In One 05:46
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Checkmate 08:02
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El Harun 05:50
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Nightmare 01:19

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Nightmare, The Ambitious first outing of Alto Saxophonist/Writer/Conceptual Artist and American Composer/Pianist Sacha Perry is equal parts love letter to the New York City Jazz Underground (which both men are products of, despite a generational divide), as it is a postmodern tone poem for the Covid-Era. Featuring legendary trumpeter James Zollar, stalwart double bassist Kyle Colina and rising star drummer, Evan Sherman, the record paints from a palette of fully realized Jazz aesthetics and genres (Bebop, Free/Avant Garde, Swing/Traditional) and rearranges these seemingly disparate pieces of source material as colors onto an aural canvas, emerging as a conceptual, postmodern pieces which functions as a total environment unto itself, With it's ritualistic undertones, the records blues linear timelines and challenges received narratives. When listened to from this perspective, the record takes it's true, ultimate form as a dreamlike hallucination; a strange, apocalyptic vision of a dying metropolis, of cultures crumbling with the Jazz quintet metamorphosing into a makeshift tribe of prophetic desert mystics. It achieves this through the means of a grounding in tradition, fearlessness, audio manipulation and spoken world resulting in as much a treatise on apocalypse and musical rendering of esoteric principles as it is a straight ahead jazz record.

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released October 1, 2021

Aaron Johnson (Alto Saxophone, Poetry, Spoken Word)
Sacha Perry (Piano)
James Zollar (Trumpet)
Kyle Colina (Bass)
Evan Sherman (Drums)
Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Peter Karl
Co-Produced by Chandra Knotts and Aaron Johnson

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Aaron Johnson New York, New York

Saxophonist, Clarinetist, Flutist, Writer and presence on the New York Jazz Underground. For more info check out: www.aaronmjohnsonjazz.com

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