Immanuel Wilkins - Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live At The Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Double vinyl LP pressing. GRAMMY-nominated alto saxophonist & composer Immanuel Wilkins presents his first-ever live album, a searing 3-volume document of his acclaimed quartet in action at a hallowed NYC jazz shrine - Immanuel Wilkins Quartet Live At The Village Vanguard. Wilkins' quartet features Micah Thomas on piano, Ryoma Takenaga on bass, and Kweku Sumbry on drums. Album Tracks 1. Warriors [Live] 2. Composition II [Live] 1. Charanam [Live] 2. Eternal [Live]

Immanuel Wilkins -InchBlues BloodInch / Saxophonist/composer Immanuel Wilkins' 3rd studio album, Blues Blood, is a meditative offering partially inspired by his childhood, a multimedia performance about the legacies of our ancestors and the bloodlines connecting us. Co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello and feat. Micah Thomas (piano), Rick Rosato (bass), Kweku Sumbry (drums), and vocalists Ganavya, June McDoom and Yaw Agyeman - with guest appearances by vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, Marvin Sewell (guitar), and Chris Dave (drums) - it's his most ambitious LP to date. Blues Blood marks the first time he's included vocalists on an album, with each distinctive voice tapping into different aspects of heritage. Blues Blood feels airy and celestial - a soothing balm for anyone searching for peace, and for Black people trying to reconcile history in a country that tries to erase it. It explores 'blues' as a symbol of radical optimism in the face of adversity and 'blood' as a symbol of all things ancestral and generational. Album Tracks 1. Matte Glaze 2. Funmi 3. Motion 4. Everything 5. Air (Interlude) 6. Dark Eyes Smile 7. Apparition 8. Assembly (Interlude) 9. Afterlife Residence Time 10. Moshpit 11. Set! (Interlude) 12. If That Blood Runs East 13. Your Memory (Interlude) 14. Blues Blood

Recorded in the historic ambience of the Village Vanguard in New York, The Extra Something is not just another by a prolific artist. Working with a first-class band, Pieranunzi combines core jazz values with a sense of structure and order that comes from classical music, but all of it animated by a strong sense of freedom.  Pieranunzi has risen to the ranks of the most significant contemporary musicians, a name to be placed alongside some of the greatest we have seen and heard.  The Extra Something contains approximately 60 minutes of original music composed by Enrico Pieranunzi. Album Tracks 1. Blue Afternoon 2. The Extra Something 3. Atoms 4. The Real You 5. Entropy 6. Song for Kenny 7. Five Plus Five