Almost everything about
Brandee Younger’s new album
Soul Awakening is confounding. The jazz harpist’s project was recorded in 2012 but was self-released released five months ago. In spite of contributions from the jazz heavyweights Ravi Coltrane and Sean Jones,
Soul Awakening has received so little visibility that I only became aware of it last week. And in spite of being as accessible and groovy as the work of crossover artists like Kamasi Washington and Sons of Kemet, it’s gained little traction on streaming services. A
stellar video of a recent concert makes it clear that Younger is a proud acolyte of the spiritual jazz icons Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. I don’t ordinarily fall for throwback recordings, but the potent
Soul Awakening stirs me.
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I
reviewed Wilco’s 25th anniversary concert for
The Kansas City Star.
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I
reviewed Lana Del Rey’s concert at the Uptown Theater for
The Kansas City Star.
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I write
concert previews for
The Kansas City Star every week.
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I
consider The State of This City, the new album by the Myers Swingset, at Plastic Sax.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
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