Josh Warren - The Path (2026)
BAND/ARTIST: Josh Warren
- Title: The Path
- Year Of Release: 2026
- Label: Wild Fennel Records
- Genre: Jazz
- Quality: mp3 320 kbps / flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:30:19
- Total Size: 70 / 172 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Gratitude
02. Spirits (for Jinx)
03. Everything, in time
04. The Path
05. What Remains
Some records come with a paper trail; this one comes mostly on trust. Josh Warren a twenty-something bassist and composer from Victoria, British Columbia, now finishing a music degree at Humber College in Toronto, and there is very little written about him yet. The Path is his debut — self-released, and named for an idea he sets out plainly: the work of growing into the musician, and the person, you’re meant to become. It’s a large title for a first album, and I went in half-expecting it to be oversold. It isn’t.
The writing holds it up. All five pieces are Warren’s, scored for a sextet that gives each player air without thinning out the ensemble. Christian Antonacci takes trumpet and flugelhorn, Emmett Hodgins piano, Miles Cakebread-Kraus guitar, Matteo Romaniello drums, and Ethan Zabarylo tenor saxophone across most of the record. Warren keeps his own bass low and steady, anchoring the band and leaving the melodies to the horns and guitar — a generous instinct from a leader, and the players repay it with the listening that only comes from a group that trusts itself.
‘Gratitude’ opens the record as an easy-going jaunt, the band settling quickly into a groove. It’s good company without being earth-shattering, and it’s also where the writing feels least certain — though Zabarylo lands one fine moment that lifts it. ‘Spirits (for Jinx)’ is a marked step up in both writing and playing, with a maturity the opener only hints at; this one is rather excellent. ‘Everything, in time’ slows and darkens, a laid-back, melancholy piece that lets Warren come to the fore. ‘The Path’ is the resounding standout — a signature tune, catchy and memorable, with everything in its right place. ‘What Remains’ closes on a high: Hodgins opens it beautifully, Antonacci enriches the picture, then the band catches light, and Warren goes for gold. Melody wins out every time.
Yes, there are moments when the writing falters — ‘Gratitude’ chief among them — but in the main this is a superb debut. On background, age and inexperience alone, caution might have won out; the genuine skill running through ‘Spirits (for Jinx)’ and ‘The Path’ can’t be waved away—a generous mark, then, but a worthy one.
01. Gratitude
02. Spirits (for Jinx)
03. Everything, in time
04. The Path
05. What Remains
Some records come with a paper trail; this one comes mostly on trust. Josh Warren a twenty-something bassist and composer from Victoria, British Columbia, now finishing a music degree at Humber College in Toronto, and there is very little written about him yet. The Path is his debut — self-released, and named for an idea he sets out plainly: the work of growing into the musician, and the person, you’re meant to become. It’s a large title for a first album, and I went in half-expecting it to be oversold. It isn’t.
The writing holds it up. All five pieces are Warren’s, scored for a sextet that gives each player air without thinning out the ensemble. Christian Antonacci takes trumpet and flugelhorn, Emmett Hodgins piano, Miles Cakebread-Kraus guitar, Matteo Romaniello drums, and Ethan Zabarylo tenor saxophone across most of the record. Warren keeps his own bass low and steady, anchoring the band and leaving the melodies to the horns and guitar — a generous instinct from a leader, and the players repay it with the listening that only comes from a group that trusts itself.
‘Gratitude’ opens the record as an easy-going jaunt, the band settling quickly into a groove. It’s good company without being earth-shattering, and it’s also where the writing feels least certain — though Zabarylo lands one fine moment that lifts it. ‘Spirits (for Jinx)’ is a marked step up in both writing and playing, with a maturity the opener only hints at; this one is rather excellent. ‘Everything, in time’ slows and darkens, a laid-back, melancholy piece that lets Warren come to the fore. ‘The Path’ is the resounding standout — a signature tune, catchy and memorable, with everything in its right place. ‘What Remains’ closes on a high: Hodgins opens it beautifully, Antonacci enriches the picture, then the band catches light, and Warren goes for gold. Melody wins out every time.
Yes, there are moments when the writing falters — ‘Gratitude’ chief among them — but in the main this is a superb debut. On background, age and inexperience alone, caution might have won out; the genuine skill running through ‘Spirits (for Jinx)’ and ‘The Path’ can’t be waved away—a generous mark, then, but a worthy one.
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