For those unaware, Composer/Arranger/Drummer Jonathan Mills is currently based in Atlanta where he enjoys a busy performance schedule with touring artists and some of the best in the region.

Jonathan has performed with George Cables, Grace Kelly, Brandon Boone (Tedeschi Trucks Band), Greg Abate, Harold Betters (Louis Armstrong, Slide Hampton, Ray Charles), Ashleigh Smith (Sarah Vaughn International Vocal Competition winner), Dave Frackenpohl (GSU), Kevin Bales, and Luke Weathington (KSU).

As a sideman, Jonathan has played at Rockwood Music Hall NYC, Musikfest PA, The Atlanta Film Festival, Churchill Grounds Jazz Cafe, Spivey Hall, Paris, Fete de la Musique in Toulouse, and many other stages up and down the East Coast.

No Mentions, No Worries is Jonathan’s debut full-length album blending his interests in the jazz tradition and its’ contemporary branches, designed as a collection of moods and thought journeys though life in today’s America.

1. No Mentions, No Worries (4:20)
2. For Hadley’s Folks (8:12)
3. When My Mind’s Quiet (7:44)
4. Solecism (4:52)
5. Cool Out (6:02)
6. Calderazzish (6:05)
7. Wait For It (6:54)
8. Sneak Attack (6:01)

Opening on the deeply lush rhythms within the titular No Mentions, No Worries and then the laid back, late night melodies of a lullaby written for his niece when she was born (with the hopes that she and her parents could find some sleep in their new schedules) For Hadley’s Folks, then comes the gently fervent, quietly excitable, harmonic work out When My Mind’s Quiet, and an exercise in melodic reinterpretation, the swinging cadences of Solecism.

The compositional, and aptly-named Cool Out is one of my own personal favorites and that is itself backed seamlessly by the finger-snapping, toe-tapping melodies that make up the stunning Calderazzish (a personal thank you to pianist/composer Joey Calderazzo), the album rounding out on the smooth hipsway of Wait For It (a commentary on working through the horrors of the world we live in today and finding our own inner peace and sense of hope for what’s to come), coming to a close on the upbeat, joyous and bountiful rhythms of the fun, yet hard hitting blues of Sneak Attack.

Personnel:
Luke Weathington - Alto Saxophone
Patrick Arthur - Guitar
Tyrone Jackson - Piano & Fender Rhodes
Tommy Sauter - Acoustic Bass
Jonathan Mills - Drums

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