Blues Twilight Review

Ivany Top 21 - John Shelton

While the time of legendary jazz musicians has gone the way of the dinosaur's and VHS tapes, once and a while there will be an album that will pop out at you, and question god's will as to why it didn't come to be 50 years prior.

Blues Twilight flows in a way that you can't learn about in Jazz Theory classes or taught in textbooks: it rains down on you like a wave of calmness that you can't get outside of a few things (sex, alcohol...). Boulger, only having released his debut The Calling in '99, has a mastery of jazz incarnate: each note, each accent, all purposeful in their creation of the emotional arc each track brings in and takes away.

His work is very modal in feel, and unsurprisingly takes a few notes from Coltrane, but in no way could they be confused. This is a different look at the same greats that we all know. Driven by strong piano leads, and even tighter trumpet playing, Blues Twilight is another jazz album for the record books.