Jason Palmer

• high quality, 2x 180 gram vinyl

• gatefold sleeve

American trumpeter Jason Palmer and French pianist/composer Cédric Hanriot's improvisational concept 'City Of Poets' is centered around Olivier Messiaen's 7 Modes of Limited Transportation and US author Dan Simmons' acclaimed, four-novel science fiction series Hyperion Cantos.

A French/American jazz exchange project (in association with the French-American Cultural Exchange and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation), its overarching melodic frameworks are based on Simmons' literary themes of pilgrimage and the life stories of his prominent characters - hence these varied 'tales' from The Priest, The Soldier, The Poet, The Scholar, The Detective and The Consul, as well as mysterious four-armed, semi-organic creature The Shrike.

This recording, captured before a receptive, live audience at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club, expresses all the intended fervor and vigor of this original music and the excitement and freedom emanating from the quintet's sparky invention. To put a musical slant on the words of English philosopher Bertrand Russell, quoted in Dan Simmons' Hyperion: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it."

PERSONNEL:

• Jason Palmer - trumpet
• Cédric Hanriot - piano
• Donny McCaslin - tenor saxophone
• Michael Janisch - double bass, bass guitar
• Clarence Penn - drums

Recorded live at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club on September 23, 2014

TRACKS:

• "Track 1"
• "Track 2"
• "Track 3"
• "Track 4"
• "Track 5"
• "Track 6"
• "Track 7"
• "Track 8"
• "Track 9"
• "Track 10"
• "Track 11"
• "Track 12"