“I‘ve been fortunate to have performed with so many
wonderful musicians in the past but I live in the present
and it hasn‘t stopped. I certainly enjoy what I‘m doing these
days.” The consistently intriguing Seven Rays is yet another
accomplishment in Jerry Bergonzi‘s productive and significant
career. It finds the great saxophonist reveling in jagged, tightly
coiled phrases and steeped in remote harmonic progressions.
His angular riffs, unexpected silences and big, barreling
low pitches continue to underline how personal Bergonzi’s
approach to jazz is. Yet the charismatic nature of his delivery
and the steely brilliance of his tone proves so compelling that
his art speaks eloquently to both the esoteric theoreticians and
the most casual of listeners.
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