(Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop) [WEB] Jerry Bergonzi - The Seven Rays (Phil Grenadier, Carl Winther, Johnny Åman / Aman, Anders Mogensen) - 2019, FLAC (tracks), lossless

“I've been fortunate to have performed with so many wonderful musicians in the past but I live in the present and it hasn't stopped. I certainly enjoy what I'm doing these days.”
The consistently intriguing Seven Rays is yet another accomplishment in Jerry Bergonzi's productive and significant career. It finds the great the saxophonist reveling in jagged, tightly coiled phrases and steeped in remote harmonic progressions. His angular riffs, unexpected silences and big, barreling low pitches continue to underline how personal Bergonzi’s approach to jazz is. Yet the charismatic nature of his delivery and the steely brilliance of his tone proves so compelling that his art speaks eloquently to both the esoteric theoreticians and the most casual of listeners.
https://www.dustygroove.com/item/915116
One of the hippest albums we've ever heard from tenorist Jerry Bergonzi, and one of the most beautiful too – a suite of tracks all based around the "seven rays" concept of spirituality – working together to provide a wonderfully righteous setting for Jerry's horn! Bergonzi has always been great, but in recent years, he seems to have deepened his tone even more – mixing a raspy edge with that always-fluid sense of improvisation – beautifully augmented here by the work of Phil Grenadier on trumpet, Carl Winther on piano, Johnny Aman on bass, and Anders Morgan on drums. Bergonzi is fantastic throughout – really hitting a Joe Henderson level of imagination – and titles include "Magnetism", "Creation", "Knowledge", "Sun Worship Ritual", "Devotion", and "Order".
https://jazztimes.com/columns/solo/a-conversation-in-spain-with-jerry-bergonzi/
Bergonzi is prolific and if his recording label, Savant, would let him, he would release more albums every year:”I have a repertoire ready for a new album. I would like to call it The 7 Rays, because of the seven rays of the universe that go through everything: seven days in a week, seven notes in the scale… Seven is a mystic number.”

Jerry Bergonzi, tenor saxophone
Phil Grenadier, trumpet
Carl Winther, piano
Johnny Åman, bass
Anders Mogensen, drums