Experimental jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt performs at the Shadbolt, October 11

Prodigious musician to perform a cabaret lounge-style show, backed by his newest band featuring vibraphone, bass, drums, and electric guitar

By Jessica Werb

Jeremy Pelt. Photo by Eva Kapanadze

Jeremy Pelt performs at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts Studio Theatre in a Cellar Music Group presentation on October 11 at 7:30 pm

WITH A SOUND and style that echoes back to 1960s bebop, coupled with a drive to forge new ground, prodigious American trumpeter Jeremy Pelt manages to merge both past and future in his work. 

Take his 2021 album Griot: This is Important! for example, which fused the voices of veteran African American jazz artists—pulled from interviews he had done for his self-published Griot book series—with contemporary bop and instrumental ballads. Pelt’s latest album, Tomorrow’s Another Day, is described on the artist’s website as his most “most experimental recording to date, with greater emphasis on the dynamic aspects of sound”. In tracks such as “No A.I.” and “Basquiat”, he merges hypnotic repetition and odd time signatures with soaring trumpet lines, electronica-influenced rhythms, and psychedelic electric guitar.

On October 11, he’ll take to the Shadbolt’s stage in a cabaret lounge-style performance of songs from this, his 24th album release, with vibraphonist Jalen Baker, guitarist Alex Wintz, bassist Leighton McKinley Harrell, and drummer Jared Spears. Expect a night of music that feels at once utterly adventurous and comfortingly familiar.   

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