Dan Pratt - Hymn For The Happy Man (2016)
Jazz | MP3 320 kbps | 59:29 | ~137 Mb
Label: Island Music | Tracks: 08 | Rls.date: 2016
Jazz | MP3 320 kbps | 59:29 | ~137 Mb
Label: Island Music | Tracks: 08 | Rls.date: 2016
Following two critically acclaimed organ group outings, New York saxophonist-composer Dan Pratt heads in a different direction on Hymn for the Happy Man, his fourth recording overall and debut for his own Same Island Music imprint. “After eight years, the organ group had a great run, and I found myself looking for something new to do,” explains the California native and longtime Brooklyn resident. “So for this record I decided to go with the piano-bass-drums-sax quartet instrumentation, which is so foundational to jazz. It was one of those things that was staring me straight in the face and I couldn’t see it, but on reflection it was such clear choice. I’d never recorded a quartet record, and to go in the direction I wanted to go, I felt I needed to explore an instrumentation that is such an essential strand to jazz’s DNA.”