For those unaware, award-winning trumpeter and composer Stuart Mack has just released Vibrations, a salient debut reflecting on the profoundly unifying and distinctly human nature of music.

Stuart Mack is a trumpeter and composer based in New York who is rapidly rising through the ranks of top-tier musicians. At a point in life where many people would just be starting their careers, Mack has already carved a name for himself with some of today’s leading jazz ensembles and musicians.

Having worked with jazz groups and legends such as Dave Liebman, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Romero Lubambo, Jihye Lee Orchestra, and the Mike Holober Group, and a plethora more, Mack’s prowess and ability have heralded him rightly-lauded acclaim across the international jazz world.

Now, after years of honing his presence and identity as a musician, Mack presents Vibrations, a debut that is woven throughout with the artistic thread that first and foremost shows the deep longing within the human soul for beauty that music can satisfy.

1. Vibrations Intro
2. Vibrations
3. Beets
4. Stu’s Blues
5. Pure Intentions
6. 2019
7. When Breath Becomes Air
8. Bass Solo
9. Beginning And End
10. Different Realities
11. Summertime

This wholly impassioned new album opens with an introductory prelude to the title track Vibrations, which the fervent track in full then follows smartly along next, and then we get the weightless beauty of Beets, the resplendently groovy Stu’s Blues and then come both the delightfully cultured piano ballad Pure Intentions and the rhythmically-hued 2019.

Along next is the sentimentally passionate When Breath Becomes Air (dedicated to the late Paul Kalanithi) and after a harmonious Bass Solo, we next get the dutifully cinematic Beginning And End, the recording rounding out on what stands as an exemplary model for Mack’s deep emphasis on the ensemble’s individual personalities, Different Realities, closing on a most vibrant take on the beloved Summertime.

www.stuartmackjazz.com