I Can Do All Things features Jeremy Warren's group The Rudiment and compositions written by Warren, Andy Milne, Jack Cooper and Dermel Warren. The music captures mixes the jazz art form with the elements of contemporary popular music and is a personal journey of overcoming life's obstacles through music. The album contains the many influences from Warren's musical upbringing and musical journey from Little Rock, to Memphis TN and eventually to New York City. He was born and raised in North Little Rock and heavily exposed to music growing up. His mother is an organist/pianist where she played at his grandfather's and now currently his father's church in Little Rock. In 2003, he received a full scholarship to the University of Memphis Scheidt School of Music in Memphis, TN. He earned dual bachelor's degrees in Jazz Studies and Music Education. Warren notes his greatest and most influential musical growth happened in Memphis where he performed with numerous local/national artists as well as leading his own group every Saturday night on Beale Street for two years.
Warren moved to New York City in 2013 and received his master's degree in Music from New York University in May 2015. Key connections through that school and the city such as Andy Milne and Lenny Pickett are heard on the "I Can Do All Things" recording.
Cover art and design: Smith-Lenior Graphic Creations
Photography: Keeshan Defay
Promotion
Kari-on Productions headquartered in Atlanta, GA is the firm handling the promotion of "I Can Do All Things" record release. The CD was submitted for the 2017 Grammy ballot in the categories R & B Album and Recording Package. Music from the recording has been premiered and heard in numerous jazz and music venues in the New York/New Jersey region of the United States. July 16, 2015 -- August 16, 2015 -- September 28, 2015—Whynot Jazz Room, New York, NY November 7, 2015 -- December 13, 2015 -- Minton's Jazz Club, Harlem, NY March 11, 2016 -- The album release on June 1, 2016 was at Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan, NY
Reception
I Can Do All Things charted for 13 weeks and peaked on the Roots Music Report airplay ratings; it peaked at #3. On the CMJ New Music ratings for airplay it charted for 10 weeks and peaked at #6. On the JazzWeek ratings it has charted for 19 weeks and peaking at #68 on August 22, 2016. "Influences of Memphis blues can be detected throughout the recording combined with rations of R&B and soul making for an enjoyable jaunt." Susan Frances, AXS "...a clinic from Jeremy on how to create melodic drum lines and in giving space to other artists without diminishing your own mission. Jeremy knows how to kick off an album." Travis Rogers, JazzTimes "... is a very talented and soulful drummer who has a beautiful feel and a great musical understanding." Lenny Pickett
