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Adam Rose, Mountain Jazz Quartet - Holler Serenade (2026) [Hi-Res]

Adam Rose, Mountain Jazz Quartet - Holler Serenade (2026) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: Holler Serenade
  • Year Of Release: 2026
  • Label: 4315549 Records DK
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: mp3 320 kbps / flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 48.0kHz
  • Total Time: 00:50:03
  • Total Size: 115 / 307 / 593 mb
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Tracklist

01. Sailing On The Potomac
02. Bye Bye Blackbird
03. Fog Valley Sunrise
04. Haywood Commons
05. Double Entendre
06. Little Ms. Understanding
07. Theresa's Journey
08. The Turnaround

Adam Rose – Guitar; Steve LaSpina – Bass; Taylor Pierson – Piano, Keyboards; Jeff Sipe – Drums

Adam Rose plays guitar in and around Asheville, North Carolina, the kind of city where bluegrass, jam, and jazz share the same stages and sometimes the same musicians. Holler Serenade, his second record, sounds like all of that in the best way.

The session was recorded live in a single day at the Eagle Room studio with a newly assembled quartet — bassist Steve LaSpina, drummer Jeff Sipe, and keyboardist Taylor Pierson. Rose came in wanting to marry the flavors of Asheville to straight-ahead New York jazz, and the band he put together carries real weight on both sides of that. LaSpina’s résumé runs through Stan Getz, Chet Baker, and Jim Hall. Sipe has worked alongside John McLaughlin and Trey Anastasio. The intros and endings weren’t worked out before the session, and you can feel that — the music has an openness to it that a more prepared date might have closed off.

Rose wrote most of the material here, and the originals suggest a man with a sentimental streak — melodies that feel lived-in, a little old-fashioned, and not apologetic about either. “Fog Valley Sunrise” starts with a stately drum pattern, almost militaristic, before the guitar enters with a different sound entirely — pedaled, tones hanging in the air. “Haywood Commons” is the counterweight — Pierson’s keyboard goes fuzzy and ’70s, the bass booms, and suddenly the record has a funk groove under it. “Theresa’s Journey” sounds like a conversation Rose is having with someone who isn’t there — guitar soft and unhurried, the keyboard giving him space, every note placed like he’s being careful not to say the wrong thing.

“Bye Bye Blackbird” is a tune every jazz student has played at some point, and the quartet treats it that way — loose and confident, everyone getting a moment. LaSpina takes a melodic solo with real woody resonance, Pierson plays behind the beat, left hand striding, and Rose glances off his upper notes like he’s skipping stones. “The Turnaround” closes things out with a shuffle beat and more urgency — Rose picking the Coleman tune out forcefully, the bass answering with its own impressive run of notes, Sipe’s drumming tasty throughout.

Holler Serenade does what Rose set out to do — it brings Asheville and New York into the same room and lets them find each other. That it all happened in a single day is impressive.

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