Artist: Theo Hill
Album: Reality Check
Genre: Post-Bop
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2020
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Blue Poles (5:50)
- Swell (4:05)
- Guardians Of Light (5:32)
- Afrofuturism (7:30)
- Scene Changes (3:34)
- Mantra (6:37)
- Superwoman (4:08)
- Aquanaut (5:59)
- Pressing The Issue (6:26)
- Song Of The Wind (5:06)
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- Personnel:
- Theo Hill (p)
- Joel Ross (vib)
- Rashaan Carter (b)
- Mark Whitfield Jr. (ds)
We really love the music of Theo Hill more and more with each new record – and here, the pianist is working in a quartet with Joel Ross on vibe – a player who makes a perfect partner for his music! Both Hill and Ross have this open sense of sound and timing – often using the spaces between the notes as much as the notes themselves – even when things are moving at a more full-on level, which they do often – thanks to contributions from Rashaan Carter on bass and Mark Whitfield on drums! Yet it's the sonic interplay between the vibes and keys that really blow us away – maybe especially at the few points when Theo picks up Fender Rhodes, and balances out the record with even more warmth next to his acoustic tracks. Titles include a version of the Stevie Wonder classic "Superwoman" – plus originals "Guardians Of Light", "Afrofuturism", "Scene Changes", "Mantra", "Swell", and "Song Of The Wind".