Breathless

"Blanchard produces consistently diverse contemporary jazz, but also addresses wider issues, sometimes via spoken addresses on civil rights and justice. He aims to do both on this upbeat groove and funk set, and it works a charm on the old Les McCann/Eddie Harris vehicle Compared to What, with rapturous flares of trumpet improv soaring off PJ Morton's Stevie Wonderish vocal tones and Oscar Seaton's backbeat".

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"Are the more personal tracks meant as a part of a larger narrative of our times? Or is this a grab bag of mismatched intentions? Either way, it doesn't hang together very well, despite the bracing - and most welcome - political observations".