Kultur: (About) 100 Words on... Jake Hertzog's "Chromatosphere"

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Kultur

Kultur is a Webblog primarily devoted to the discussion of music but often addressing movies, books, politics, religion, media and popular culture.

This blog offers me the opportunity to develop ideas and receive feedback in an effort to understand why King Solomon states in Ecclesiastes 1:17 (KJV):

Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

When not writing this blog, I serve as a Senior Reviewer for the online magazine All About Jazz. This blog is an outgrowth of and will eventually replace my previous blog: Kultur.

Kultur: (About) 100 Words on... Jake Hertzog's "Chromatosphere"

(About) 100 Words on... Jake Hertzog's "Chromatosphere"

Chromatosphere

Jake Hertzog

That's Out Records, 2009

Jake Herzog has scads of schooling in how to play the jazz guitar having graduated from Berklee. He is fortunate enough to attracts support talent like bassist Harvie S, pianist Michael Wolff, and drummer Victor Lewis. Forget all of the original compositions here, save for the very fine and rocking "Bonding" which indeed makes Herzog "...a jazz guitarist of and for the 21st Century." Herzog's full-bore treatment of "Almost like Being in Love" breaks tonal ground in the standards department, his lines clean and sharp as razors. His "In Your Own Sweet Way" is truly a marvel, perhaps one for the ages, as is "Falling in Love With Love." Hertzog needs a standards recording.