THE VJE: VERY LIVE!
What luck! Recorded live in January 2020 -- just before the pandemic shut down performances everywhere -- The VJE: Very Live!
captures the Verve Jazz Ensemble with its core quintet personnel smoking their way through their most popular charts, taken from the VJE’s 6 chart-topping studio albums. Hard bop, originals, swingers, Latin, and inventive, re-imagined standards…all on display, featuring the unmistakably classic VJE sound in this, the band’s first live release. High-energy, powerful, fun, and grooving from track to track, with Josh Feldstein (drums/leader), Jon Blanck (tenor), Tatum Greenblatt (trumpet), Steve Einerson (piano), and Chris DeAngelis (bass).