It's great to hear an album of intense hard bop coming out of Meanjin's JMI stable of recruits. This scene has been brewing for a long time now, but recordings have been scarce - here's hoping for many more!
—Andrew Garton, Jazz in Meanjin
Eclectic independent label 4000 Records are thrilled to announce their newest cohorts: Meanjin five-piece hard bop outfit Méva’s Journal.
As the brain-child of drummer, composer and bandleader Evan J. Evans, Mèva's Journal has been a long time in the making. Evans had been working with and starting many projects throughout all forms of jazz and jazz-adjacent music, until he finally decided it was time to build what to him was the perfect band to explore the music of his mind
The quintet explores different sounds of the '60s hard bop scene. A big and early inspiration to Evan has always been Thelonious Monk, being exposed to Monk in his first year at the esteemed Jazz Music Institute (JMI). Through Monk he found himself finding more people that he would come to look up to such as Eric Dolphy, Freddie Redd, Horace Silver, Bud Powell and Elmo Hope.
For Fans Of: The Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Freddie Redd.
Mèva’s Journal takes over Can You Keep A Secret? on September the 28th to celebrate the launch of their debut record Chimeraa. The quintet will be performing from 4pm bringing some intensity to an otherwise chill afternoon of springtime drinks and hangs with friends.
As the brain-child of drummer, composer and bandleader Evan J. Evans, Mèva's Journal has been a long time in the making. Evans had been working with and starting many projects throughout all forms of jazz and jazz-adjacent music, until he finally decided it was time to build what to him was the perfect band to explore the music of his mind
The quintet explores different sounds of the '60s hard bop scene. A big and early inspiration to Evan has always been Thelonious Monk, being exposed to Monk in his first year at the esteemed Jazz Music Institute (JMI). Through Monk he found himself finding more people that he would come to look up to such as Eric Dolphy, Freddie Redd, Horace Silver, Bud Powell and Elmo Hope.
For Fans Of: The Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Freddie Redd.
Mèva’s Journal takes over Can You Keep A Secret? on September the 28th to celebrate the launch of their debut record Chimeraa. The quintet will be performing from 4pm bringing some intensity to an otherwise chill afternoon of springtime drinks and hangs with friends.
