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Jared Hall: Seen on the Scene

By Dan McClenaghan
August 13, 2021
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With Seen On the Scene, his Origin Records debut, trumpeter

Jared Hall

trumpet
b.1985

" data-original-title="" title="">Jared Hall offers up the sort of fresh bebop/post bop sounds found on the Blue Note Records label in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Horace Silver

piano
1928 - 2014

" data-original-title="" title="">Horace Silver and

Art Blakey

drums
1919 - 1990

" data-original-title="" title="">Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers seem to serve as touchstones, as does pianist / composer

" data-original-title="" title="">Tadd Dameron, too. Hall's quintet—the familiar trumpet and sax and rhythm section line-up—takes on a pair of Dameron's classics: "Mating Call," and two versions of "If You Could See Me Now," along with a handful of Hall originals, and Francis Lei's. "Theme From Love Story."

Opening with the Hall-penned title tune, the quintet runs with a well-tuned synchronization. It also puts on display the disparate personalities involved—the leader's relatively laid-back approach to his horn, sounding similar to fellow horn man

Wilbur Harden

" data-original-title="" title="">Wilbur Harden's work with the decidedly brasher saxophonist

John Coltrane

saxophone
1926 - 1967

" data-original-title="" title="">John Coltrane on the quintet outing Standard Coltrane (Prestige Records, 1958), while his front line running mate, alto saxophonist

Vincent Herring

saxophone, alto
b.1964

" data-original-title="" title="">Vincent Herring carries a tang in his tone, a sharp edge not unlike that of fellow alto sax man

Jackie McLean

saxophone, alto
1932 - 2006

" data-original-title="" title="">Jackie McLean.

Dameron's "Mating Call" gets a reverent treatment, the rhythm section of bassist

Michael Glynn

bass, acoustic

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Glynn, pianist

John Hansen

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">John Hansen and drummer

Matt Jorgensen

drums
b.1972

" data-original-title="" title="">Matt Jorgensen delving into a deep-yet-bright groove, in contrast to the drifting melancholy of "Theme From Love Story," delivered in a terrific fashion here. At eight minutes running time, it is the longest cut on the disc, offering a particularly eloquent piano solo from Hansen, all alone, no comping, as he tells the entire sad story involved; that then shifts in a beautiful give-and-take from the horns.

The group takes on Coltrane's aspiration with the hall original, "Force Tor Good," an ebullient romp, with Hall sounding inspired, while the two takes on Dameron's "If You Could See Me Now" exude a "late night in the emptied out bar" vibe.

Classic sounds all around; a great beginning for Jared Hall with the Origin Records label.

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Track Listing

Seen on the Scene; Mating Call; Theme from Love Story; Thinker; Coral Way; If You Could See Me Now; Force for Good; Farewell; If You Could See Me Now.

Personnel

Jared Hall

trumpet

Vincent Herring

saxophone, alto

John Hansen

piano

Michael Glynn

bass, acoustic

Matt Jorgensen

drums

Album information

Title: Seen on the Scene | Year Released: 2021 | Record Label: Origin Records

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