For those not in the know, Jeff Rupert is a freelance tenor saxophonist, a Yamaha Artist and a record producer under the Flying Horse Records label.

His numerous recordings as a featured soloist include dates with Maynard Ferguson, Sam Rivers, Diane Schuur, Mel Torme, Benny Carter’s Grammy winning recording, Harlem Renaissance (Music Masters), and the New Jersey Blues band TheFins, to name just a few.

He has also been featured on his own quartet recordings, Jeff Rupert, Jeff Rupert + Dirty Martini, Jeff Rupert & Kenny Drew Jr From Memphis to Mobile, in recordings with the Flying Horse Big Band, with blues group The Fins, and Jazz pianist, vocalist, and radio show host Judy Carmichael, among his many appearances.

His brand new album is entitled It Gets Better and is out now via Rupe Media.

1. Petrichor (in the Cote D’azur)
2. Comanche Crush
3. Lana Turner
4. It Gets Better
5. Pharaoh’s Daughter
6. Like Someone in Love
7. Nowhere to Go But Up
8. Not My Blues
9. Promenade in Blue

Few musicians can master the intricacies of jazz like Jeff Rupert and thus his wonderful new album opens on the luxuriant Petrichor (in the Cote D’azur) and then we get the spirited Comanche Crush, the ornately-hued, sultry Lana Turner, and then comes the finger-snapping title track, It Gets Better.

The talented tenor saxophonist continues onward with the free-flowing ambiance found within Pharaoh’s Daughter and the upbeat and joyful Like Someone in Love, which are in turn backed seamlessly by the bewitchingly guided Nowhere to Go But Up, the album rounding out on the fervent Not My Blues, closing on the low slung Promenade in Blue.

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