Here's the spectacular lead-off track from Connie Han's Iron Starlet. A 23-year-old pianist and composer with prodigious technique, Han shares some common ground with Christian Sands.
On the upcoming record Han is with bassist Ivan Taylor and drummer/producer Bill Wysaske, saxophonist Walter Smith III and the great trumpeter Jeremy Pelt who is quite the arsonist on this exciting lead-off track.
Han has been around a few years. I wasn't much taken by 2018's Crime Zone, but I'll be tuning in here when the record comes out. Han seems so much more convincing.
Iron Starlet includes Wysaske tune 'Nova' and his instrumental arrangement of Joe Chambers' 'Hello to the Wind'. Han originals include 'The Forsaken' in waltz time and in a Wyntonian tilt the Black Codes (From the Underground)-inspired 'Dark Chambers' are also on the album.
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