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Jeremy Pelt - Men Of Honor


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Chances are Pelt's quintet is in town for a gig on Easter Monday - if the agent can sell enough tickets beforehand, he will take the risk - he's afraid too many regular visitors are out of town for vacation. We'll see ...

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In my opinion he's adding a lot of his own thing to the jazz pantheon here. He just had the misfortune of being born about 30 years too late. Here's the thing - no matter WHAT he played, he wasn't going to be starting any jazz movements or schools, because jazz as a POPULAR form of music is indeed dead and has been for decades. That doesn't mean it's artistically dead, but it does mean that the likelihood of anyone starting a "jazz revolution" is somewhere between slim and none, there just ain't enough of a critical mass folks.

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Proud to say I've known Gerald Cleaver for quite a few years (he's from the D). He has made a strong name in NY avant circles but his dad was a respected bop drummer (Johnny Cleaver) and Gerald played his share of straight-ahead jazz before leaving town.

Two years ago he brought a group to the Detroit Jazz fest that included Pelt on trumpet. It swung, but wasn't a bop band.

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