Fans of Kamasi Washington (and Coltrane, by necessity), listen to this new album by the composer, drummer and band leader Tumi Mogorosi, who first pays homage to his formative years in a gospel choir on Group Theory: Black Music. These voices constitute the center of gravity of the work, as Washington employed them on The Epic (2015) and SAULT on the amazing Air released earlier this year, making the compositions of Shabaka collaborator Hutchings even more dramatic. His South African accompanists knit magnificent passages, starting with guitarist Reza Khota who distinguished himself from The Fallthen on At the Limit of the Speakable — let us also mention the great sensitivity of Mthunzi Mvubu’s playing on the alto saxophone (what elegance in his solo of walk with me !), and the playing, nervous and complex, of the drummer. In the middle of the disc, Mogorosi conducts a poignant reinterpretation of the classic Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Childmade famous by Odetta.
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