Afrodeezia

"Miller's wide-angle view of jazz is extended further on the glorious Afrodeezia. It reveals in a sophisticated, exceptionally ambitious manner the labyrinthine interconnectedness of earlier sounds and rhythms -- which emerged from bondage and horrific suffering -- to new ones that bring the world joy".

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"Vocalist Lalah Hathaway, rapper Chuck D and jazz musicians Robert Glasper and Ambrose Akinmusire are among the guests on a typically inviting and pop-friendly Miller venture, taking in sauntering hi-life themes, elegantly orchestrated gospel songs, dark and guttural R&B, and a chanson-like episode mingling classical cello and electric bass ... Despite the seriousness of his subject, the versatile Miller's work never altogether shakes off an air of expert slickness, but some strong themes and plenty of urgent improvising more or less neutralise that".

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