- Summary: Roy Ayers co-wrote the songs and plays the vibraphone on seven of eight tracks on Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad's second release from their Jazz Is Dead studio sessions series.
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- Record Label: Jazz Is Dead
- Genre(s): Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Soul Jazz
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Q MagazineJul 28, 2020Younge and Muhammad give Ayers a crisp edge that achieves the unlikely feat of dragging jazz-funk into the modern world. [Sep 2020, p.107]
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MojoJul 21, 2020The result is a rhapsodic work. [Sep 2020, p.89]
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UncutJul 16, 2020This is an all-American band, but there are nods to the rhythmic sophistication coming out of London's jazz scene. [Sep 2020, p.34]
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Jul 16, 2020Much of what precedes and follows it is up to the same fine standard, predominantly mellow if hot-blooded with Tribe label titans Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison adding some intensity with spirited blowing.
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Jul 16, 2020The album feels too short to be a definitive statement. [Jul 2020, p.75]
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Jul 16, 2020Though Younge and Shaheed Muhammad may enjoy casting themselves as career revivalists, Roy Ayers JID 002, as pleasant and groovy as it is, never quite feels like a true Roy Ayers work.