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| Jae Sinnett releases his 21st album, The Blur the Lines Project Virginia-based drummer, composer, bandleader, radio broadcaster and educator Jae Sinnett releases his 21st album, The Blur the Lines Project: a tour-de-force, jazz-rock recording featuring the music of Rush, Rare Earth, The Edgar Winter Group, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin! Jae Sinnett - Drums, Vocals Ada Rovatti - Tenor Saxophone Allen Farnham - Hammond B3 Organ - Piano Jason Cale - Guitar Terry Burrell - Bass Artist: JAE SINNETT Title: THE BLUR THE LINES PROJECT Artist Website: https://jaesinnett.com Release Date: January 6, 2025 Label: J-Nett Music Catalog Number: 21 UPC Code: 1 95269 33811 4 TRACK LISTING 1. Tom Sawyer (Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, Pye Dubois) 5:29 2. I Just Want To Celebrate (Nick Zesses, Dino Fekaris) 5:23 3. Frankenstein (Edgar Winter) 7:45 4. Magic Carpet Ride (John Kay, Rushton Moreve) 4:33 5. Hush (Joe South) 7:26 6. Immigrant Song (Jimmy Page. Robert Plant) 6:20 MUSICIANS: Jae Sinnett - Drums, Vocals, Ada Rovatti - Tenor Saxophone, Allen Farnham - Hammond B3 Organ - Piano, Jason Cale - Guitar, Terry Burrell - Bass Virginia-based drummer, composer, bandleader, radio broadcaster and educator Jae Sinnett releases his 21st album, The Blur the Lines Project: a tour-de-force, jazz-rock recording featuring the music of Rush, Rare Earth, The Edgar Winter Group, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin! Jae Sinnett has been one of the most durable and dynamic drummers on the scene for the past four decades: a one man synthesis of Art Blakey's power, Elvin Jones' complex cross-rhythms, and Max Roach's percussive precision. But on his new release, The Blur the Lines Project, Sinnett returns to his rock roots, blurring the lines that separate rock and jazz into a sizzling and swinging 21st century fusion of his own. Sinnett leads an ensemble that includes pianist and Hammond B-3 organist Allen Farnham, bassist Terry Burrell, guitarist Jason Cale and tenor saxophonist Ada Rovatti adding their ingenious improvisations to Rush's anthemic "Tom Sawyer, " Rare Earth's rousing "I Just Want to Celebrate, " the Edgar Winter Group's complex instrumental "Frankenstein, " Steppinwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride, " Deep Purple's "Hush" and Led Zeppelin's iconic "Immigrant Song, " which is laced with Sinnett's intricate, Take 6-style vocal arrangement. Sinnett maintains the melodic integrity of these classic jazz-adjacent classics, adding subtle rhythmic and harmonic twists, fueled by his powerful 8th note attacks and his angular rhythmic tinges of jazz. Sinnett grew up in Donora, PA, a small town 20 miles south of Pittsburgh, listening to jazz, gospel, R&B, blues, and was later influenced by a potpourri of Black drummers which included Motown's Benny Benjamin, Stax session drummer, Al Jackson, Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste of The Meters, and Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. He started playing drums at the age of six, and his earliest rock influences were Jimi Hendrix's drummer Mitch Mitchell, Led Zeppelin's John Bonham and Ginger Baker of Cream. He later gravitated to jazz and served in the U.S. Navy in Virginia. Sinnett has worked with many jazz artists including: Branford and Ellis Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Randy Brecker, James Moody, Frank Morgan, Fred Hersch and Mulgrew Miller. Sinnett's nearly two dozen albums as a leader range from his straight-ahead quartet release, Zero to 60 and his trio date, Altered Egos, to his wide-ranging Americana Groove Project and his CD with the Symphonicity Orchestra, Live at the Sandler Center, which won the Veer Magazine awards for Best Jazz Album and Album of the Year in 2023. Sinnett has composed 250 compositions, and scored music for five documentaries, including John Biggers: Stories of Illumination, aired on PBS. Sinnett attended Norfolk State and Old Dominion Universities as a music education major. He taught history, theory and percussion at the Governor's School of the Arts in Norfolk for eight years. He also directed the GSA Big Band and Jazz Combos, and was an adjunct drum set and jazz ensemble instructor at Christopher Newport University. Sinnett has also been an award-winning radio host at WHRV-FM in Norfolk for 35 years. In 2020, Sinnett was awarded Jazz Week magazine's Duke Dubois Jazz Humanitarian Award. With the release of The Blur the Lines Project, Jae Sinnett brings jazz and rock together to form an enduring musical union. write your comments about the article :: © 2025 Jazz News :: home page |