Title: Simply Put
Label: Savant
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS

Jerry Bergonzi, a Bostonian who has been plying his trade for more than four decades, has had a notable career as a player/educator that has included quality time with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, among others, and this is the twenty-sixth recording he has made as leader of his own groups. The tourist is a long-established master of extracting maximum artistry with a minimum of fuss, which masks the fact that there is nothing simple about either the contents or the execution of this release. Spurred by a first-class rhythm section, Bergonzi swings through a program of tricky originals and ingeniously harmonized standards with unrelenting plan, deploying a richly textured tone, an authoritative time feel, and a storyteller's sense of how to unfold a narrative arc in notes and tones. Featuring Bruce Barth on piano.

Tracks:
1.1 Mr. MB
1.2 Dancing in the Dark
1.3 Casadiche
1.4 Come Fly with Me
1.5 Wipper Snapper
1.6 Out of Nowhere
1.7 Crossing the Naeff
1.8 Transphybian
1.9 What If?
1.10 Malaga