Artist: Black Art Jazz Collective
Album: Truth to Power
Genre: Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2024
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Black Heart (Davis) - 5:50
- The Fabricator (Blake) - 6:16
- Truth to Power (Escoffery) - 8:21
- It's Alright (Pelt) - 7:52
- Coming of Age (Burton) - 5:30
- Dsus (Gould) - 5:29
- Code Switching (Burton) - 5:51
- Soliloquy (For Sidney Poitier) (Pelt) - 4:21
- Lookin' for Leroy (Escoffery) - 6:46
- Blues on Stratford Road (Blake) - 6:30
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- Personnel:
- Wayne Escoffery - tenor saxophone
- Jeremy Pelt - trumpet
- Josh Evans, Wallace Roney Jr - trumpet (#3)
- James Burton III - trombone
- Xavier Davis (#1,2,4,5,9,10), Victor Gould (#3,6-8) - piano
- Vicente Archer (#1,2,4,5,9,10), Rashaan Carter (#3,6-8) - bass
- Johnathan Blake (#1,2,4,5,9,10), Mark Whitfield Jr (#3,6-8) - drums
For its 10th anniversary release, the Black Art Jazz Collective (BAJC), hailed by DownBeat Magazine as "a powerhouse of contemporary jazz talent," offers ten exciting and unique works that speak to both artistic freedom and musical sensibility relative to the tenor of our times. The band features an all-star line-up, including founding members Wayne Escoffery, Jeremy Pelt, James Burton III, Xavier Davis and Johnathan Blake who are joined by current members Victor Gould, Rashaan Carter and Mark Whitfield Jr. Wayne Escoffery tells us, "I formed Black Art Jazz Collective as an ensemble of African American musicians, celebrating Black culture and the origins of the music through original compositions with unapologetic pride."