For those unaware, Dr. Jake Hertzog is a critically acclaimed guitarist, composer and educator whose career to-date has spanned eleven albums as bandleader across jazz, rock and classical new music styles.

He has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and India and performed and recorded with a diverse cadre of artists including Randy Brecker, Ivan Neville, Mike Clarke, Blondie Chaplin, Anton Fig, Corey Glover, Barry Altschul, Dave Leibman, Ingrid Jensen and many others.

Jake Hertzog’s latest album, the just-released Longing to Meet You features Jake on guitar, Matt Woroshyl on saxophone, Perrin Grace on bass, and Joe Peri on drums.

1. Longing to Meet You
2. A Dream Fades Slowly
3. The Attempt
4. A Room with No Doors
5. Loss
6. The Last Time
7. Interlude
8. Whisper You
9. Arrival

The new recording opens on the languishing beauty within the titular Longing to Meet You and the jaunty A Dream Fades Slowly and then we are given the lushly orchestrated The Attempt, and the flirtatious A Room with No Doors.

Along next is the doleful, at times stoic Loss and that is in turn backed by the perky joy cultivated within The Last Time, and after a calming Interlude, the recording rounds out on the veritably shimmering Whisper You, closing on the cinematic Arrival.

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