Matt Lavelle - In Swing We Trust (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Swing has always been at the heart of jazz and free jazz as I have learned it and played it. My first mentor Hildred Humphries was a saxophonist from the Swing era, and played with Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and Roy Eldridge.
The very first solo I ever took was on C Jam Blues with my High school big band led by legendary educator Bert Hughes in Nyack, Ny in 1987. I knew 1 blues scale and had just spent the summer getting my chops back after I had only been doing art since I first started learning the trumpet in middle school. What came out of me was a blues swing riff right in time, I still remember it. While I knew about 2% about music, the swing aspect of my musical personality was already in me. Bert played Joe Williams singing Work Song live with the Basie orchestra, and I felt something deep inside. My friend and trombone player Foster Bass said “man, you should have seen your face when Bert played that track.” I ventured to Sam Goody and said something like “What’s the greatest jazz you have?” I left with 2 cassettes: Louis Armstrong’s greatest hits, and Miles Davis greatest hits. I fell so hard and deep for music that I have made it my life’s core direction since then. From Louis what I felt the most was the blues. From Miles, the way he painted on My Funny Valentine remains to this day, a level of expression that I have been striving to reach, a type of creative mountaintop. Swing, was always at the heart of it.

TRACKLIST

1. Matt Lavelle - In Swing We Trust
2. Matt Lavelle - Tree Swing
3. Matt Lavelle - Giuseppe's Horn
4. Matt Lavelle - Trust
5. Matt Lavelle - Giraffes
6. Matt Lavelle - Frank Lowe Says Goodbye



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