Ascent To The Blues, by Alex Sipiagin

Ascent To The Blues

by Alex Sipiagin

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	1.	Dolphin's View 06:53
	2.	Blues For Wood 05:25
	3.	Doppio 05:27
	4.	Infant Eyes 06:57
	5.	Hindsight 04:35
	6.	No Doubts 05:54
	7.	Rush Hour 04:38
	8.	One More Shot 08:39
	9.	Novgorod Bells 09:15
	10.	Sandrigo Blues 04:16
	11.	Twelve More Bars To Go 06:08

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The sky is well within reach when trumpet player extraordinaire Alex Sipiagin sets his sights on the summit and heads off upward in an Ascent to the Blues for his 2022 release on Posi-Tone Records. The session features the focused wizardry of Sipiagin’s incisive technique, gripping tonality and hard hitting melodicism are countered cleverly against the curvature of contributions from Diego Rivera on tenor saxophone, the cool complexities of Art Hirahara on piano, the steady underpinnings of Boris Kozlov on bass, and the bombastic metrics of Rudy Royston on drums and percussion. While the album program remains decidedly straight forward and rooted in the blues throughout, the music is also elegantly lyrical and brilliantly evocative of a truly modern jazz sensibility. With a flawless combination of effortless mastery and brilliant performances, Sipiagin's “Ascent to the Blues" reaches steadily upward toward new heights and provides a clear pathway of inspirational bright moments for jazz fans everywhere to joyfully ascend again and again.

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released May 20, 2022

Alex Sipiagin - trumpet; flugelhorn No Doubts, Infant Eyes
Diego Rivera - tenor saxophone
Art Hirahara - piano; Rhodes 1, 3, 6, 8, 10
Boris Kozlov - bass; electric bass 1
Rudy Royston - drums; percussion

Marc Free - producer
Nick O’Toole - engineer
recorded September 15 & 16, 2021 at Acoustic Recording, Brooklyn, NY
mixed & mastered at Woodland Studio, Lake Oswego, OR
photography by Anna Yatskevich
package design by Beth Escott Newcomer

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Alex Sipiagin is an award-winning jazz trumpet player and has numerous credits with some of the world's best musicians.

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