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  • 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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  1. Q Magazine
    Jul 28, 2020
    80
    Younge and Muhammad give Ayers a crisp edge that achieves the unlikely feat of dragging jazz-funk into the modern world. [Sep 2020, p.107]
  2. Mojo
    Jul 21, 2020
    80
    The result is a rhapsodic work. [Sep 2020, p.89]
  3. Uncut
    Jul 16, 2020
    70
    This is an all-American band, but there are nods to the rhythmic sophistication coming out of London's jazz scene. [Sep 2020, p.34]
  4. Jul 16, 2020
    70
    Much 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.
  5. 67
    The album feels too short to be a definitive statement. [Jul 2020, p.75]
  6. Jul 16, 2020
    61
    Though 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.