CORNISH,PAUL YOU’RE EXAGGERATING (180 GRAM) – LP

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UPC: 602475855156
Label: BLUE NOTE RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: August 22, 2025
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Paul Cornish is part of a great heritage of jazz piano that has unfolded at the label, from Blue Notes first 78-rpm releases by Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons through Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Don Pullen, Geri Allen, Jacky Terrasson, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Renee Rosnes, Aaron Parks, Gerald Clayton and beyond.

Then, hes part of a lineage of Blue Note artists, past and present, who hail from Houston, Texas, and developed at the citys Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, a.k.a. HSPVA. That more recent hall of fame includes Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Walter Smith III, Kendrick Scott, Chris Dave and James Francies. Of course, within that list theres yet another bloodline, of musicians whove come to define jazz pianism in the 21st century: Moran, Glasper, Francies and, now, Cornish, who was born and raised in Houston and has been based in Los Angeles for over a decade.

In many ways, Cornish is the most profound embodiment yet of Blue Notes regenerative influence the idea that, like the labels landmark midcentury recordings, Blue Note LPs of recent vintage have had a seismic impact on jazzs ever-evolving sound. Those early Robert Glasper records on Blue Note, like Canvas and In My Element, were my first window into this legacy Im part of, says Cornish, whose profile has elevated of late through his work with fellow Blue Note artist Joshua Redman. I look at Jason Moran as the catalyst. And Glasper took some of that and added a whole other thing to it, and then James took it even further. With each one of us, it evolves and expands.

TRACK LIST:

1. DB Song
2. Queinxiety
3. Star Is Born
4. Slow Song
5. 5 AM
6. Dinosaur Song
7. Palindrome (feat. Jeff Parker)
8. Queen Geri
9. Modus Operandi