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Jim Nolet is an artist, performer and educator known internationally as a composer and improviser in the jazz idiom. He began his study of violin at age 7. By age 13, he was improvising and playing professionally while continuing classical studies at the Juilliard School and Cornish Institute of the Arts. Nolet’s jazz Identity took shape in the workshops, studios and clubs of New York, where his work in mainstream, bop and Latin music circles ensured development of a jazz foundation that is both solid and diverse.
He has performed, recorded and toured throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, South America and Canada, with jazz notables such as Arturo O’Farrill, David Murray, Fred Hopkins, Newman Baker, Tim Hagans, Marcia Lopes, Monica Salmaso, Rodrigo Rodrigues, John Purcell, Jay Rodriguez, John Hicks, Marvin Sewell, Alessandro D’Loia, Mario Manga, Adriano Buskos, Charles Eubanks, John Bruschini, The Jazz Passengers, Michael Bisio, Don Byron, Joanne Brackeen, Marc Ribot, Frank Lacy, Hamiet Bluiett, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor and others.
This recording represents a time when Nolet focused on applying his advanced studies in harmony, rhythm and composition. Many jazz musicians of the loft era in New York city such as Jim Nolet, Ornette Coleman, Gary Peacock, Fred Hopkins, Butch Morris, Henry Threadgill, Charles Mingus, Don Cherry, and Miles Davis represented jazz as a continued progressive creation of sound. This recording represents a union of Jazz Giants of modern jazz, Nolet and Hagan spar with harmolodic themes and come together with spontaneous counterpoint. The foundational layer of this composition plays jazz history and is well rounded with Reggie Nicholson and Daryl Hall locking in a cool Mingus touch while comping the ensembles progressive developments. Nolet's Mingus, Dolphy, and other harmolodic influences come to life as he paints the colors of jazz throughout this canvas.
“Jim Nolet, the finest jazz violinist playing. …highly virtuoistic, superb technique…really, this is the most satisfying jazz violin disc I have heard since, well, since I’ve been listening!” -All About Jazz, C Michael Bailey
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released October 13, 2017
Composed and arranged by Jim Nolet and Berry Wedgle
Jim Nolet, viola
Tim Hagans, trumpet
Darryl Hall, bass
Berry Wedgle, guitar
Willard Dyson, drums
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