On the Up By Doug Wyatt

 

On the Up

By

Doug Wyatt

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

Jazz music is all the better for the latest single from Doug Wyatt called On the Up, this follows hot on the heels of his brilliant album release called Days of Gypsy Nights, as the jazz pianist is once again in full flow on this quite pacey composition, and it’s electrifying tonal delights are a pleasure to float within.

Doug’s impressive talents on piano are added to by the multi-instrumental nature of the track, with sax, bass and drums, all added into this lush mix of a piano-driven, jazz fused opus. One has to applaud Michael Rosen on tenor saxophone for what in my view is a transcendent performance throughout.

The song created before the world went totally crazy, in the new year of 2025 and is an extremely clever jazz narrative, posing a crafted juxtaposition whilst the title suggests a more optimistic emotional direction that life could take, there is an underpinned tale of concern and anxious moments ahead, regardless this brand new single is a story well told by the artist and performed sublimely.

For me Wyatt has produced the perfect jazz lexicon here, it is a veritable glossary of moods and musical integrity, with top notch performance also from Marcello Pellitteri drums and Joseph Lepore on double bass. This is the perfect jazz single fitting into the psyche with ease of the jazz and instrumental music fan, and should be a big hit within the charts it sits within, full marks indeed to Doug Wyatt and On the Up.