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Jovan Alexandre is an emerging jazz tenor saxophone phenomenon, known for the brightness of his tone and the elegant bearing of his compositions. He may be situated, broadly speaking, within the penumbra of hard-bop and post-bop styles elaborated and taught by Jackie McLean during his later, seminal years as a Connecticut resident and educator. -- -- Alexandre has been a soloist on recordings for drummers Ralph Peterson (Outer Reaches [2010]) and Winard Harper (Coexist, sharing the tenor spotlight with Frank Wess [2012]), and for the South African jazz singer Nonhlanhla Kheswa (Meadowlands, Stolen Jazz [2013]). "Collective Consciousness" is Alexandre's first album as a leader. -- -- Just as Jackie McLean himself had - in such albums for Blue Note as Let Freedom Ring [1962] and One Step Beyond [1963] - extrapolated upon both the lyricism and projection of a Charlie Parker or a Dexter Gordon and the angular modes and scales of John Coltrane, so has Jovan Alexandre revealed himself as a spiritual heir to McLean with authoritative and imaginative excursions into the free-flowing modernist colloquy pioneered by McLean. -- -- The members of Alexandre's quintet on Collective Consciousness - pianist Taber Gable, bassist Matt Dwonszyk, drummer Jonathan Barber, and guitarist Andrew Renfroe - are similarly attuned to the aesthetic of controlled energy that Alexandre has inherited from McLean, so there is a certain hard-bop (and modernist) classicism at work on Collective Consciousness.
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TRACK LISTINGS
01. Collective Consciousness
02. To Music
03. Stars in the Sky
04 Yalesville
05 The Formula (For Kahlil Bell)
06 25.1
07 They Say It's Wonderful
08 Red Blues
09 Reconnaissance
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