While We Have Time

Chicagoan Maddie Vogler has put together an impressive project with her new album, While We Have Time. Having recently graduated from the University of Illinois, she put together this debut album with a sextet featuring Tito Carrillo on trumpet, Matt Gold on guitar, Jake Shapiro on piano, Samuel Peters on bass and Neil Hemphill on drums. The leadoff track, "The Need to Be" is a fantastic song and arrangement that sounds like a slice of late 60's Blue Note at its finest. "Hymn for August" while brief, is a lovely duet for saxophone and piano that I wish was quite a bit longer than its 1:45 runtime. Vogler proves to be a composer, arranger and player off to a fantastic start with While We Have Time. I look forward to hearing her much more often.