#kendrick scott

[jazzcomposers]

Kendrick Scott - Drums

Joe Sanders - Bass

Mike Moreno - Guitar

Taylor Eigsti - Piano

John Ellis - Sax

[jazzcomposers]

The streamlined version of Oracle on the new recording includes saxophonist and bass clarinetist John Ellis, guitarist Mike Moreno (the only member to also appear on The Source) pianist Taylor Eigsti and bassist Joe Sanders. Guest vocalist and guitarist Alan Hampton makes appearances on two tracks.

[gottahavesoul]

Kendrick Scott Oracle - Voices ft. Derrick Hodge

A Wall Becomes a Bridge, 2019

[everymanvoice]

Forward motion.

It’s all we’ve got.

[mosaicrecords]

John Scofield, John Patitucci & Kendrick Scott: Hottentot

John Scofield seems to be enjoying his intriguing company here in this version of his Hottentot: John Patitucci's upright bass, and Kendrick Scott on drums, in this 2007 clip, recorded in Chile.

-Nick Moy

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[burlveneer-music]

Philip Bailey - Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads cover from his forthcoming album Love Will Find a Way

[gottahavesoul]

Kendrick Scott Oracle - >>>>>>>>>>>Mocean (A Wall Becomes A Bridge, 2019)

“Walls are easier to build than bridges. We are often quicker to stack bricks built of fear than we are to weave a cable of empathy and reach across a divide. Where I see walls, then, I see an admission of our fundamental fragility - of vulnerability. So the question that I began to ask myself was how I personally, and we collectively, can use those vulnerabilities not as points of separation, but as points of convergence?

I realized that my life’s purpose is to become an instrument of peace; to bridge divides through my music. Yet, in pursuing this I found my path stagnated by my internal walls of fear and insecurity. As I worked to explore and understand these fears in myself, I came to see my personal journey as parallel with our collective social consciousness.

This project is, therefore, a response to a personal struggle that is also a collective one: how we are more connected than ever, but also more separated; and the opportunities that lie before us within that awareness.

This music was created to explore this narrative, revealing itself from the end (>>>>>>>>>>>) of the story to the beginning (>). Traversing 12 stages including Perspective, Breakthrough, Doubt, Acceptance, Denial, and Innocence, in the end, we arrive at the seat of the allegory: transformation and optimism.  Ultimately, our walls don't exist in contrast to bridges; they are our provocations and precursors to our breakthrough.”

[gottahavesoul]

Joey Alexander: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

“Born in Indonesia, Alexander learned to play by listening to his father's jazz albums. When he was just 10-years old, Wynton Marsalis invited him to play at a Jazz at Lincoln Center gala, and the young Alexander set the jazz world buzzing. He made his mark covering classics by Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, but he's now recording and performing more of his own compositions. He showcased that original work during his Tiny Desk performance. Alexander's vigorously rhythmic playing was playful in the opening "Eclipse" (from his latest album of the same name), which he described as "spontaneous playing." "Bali," also from Eclipse, followed, while "City Lights" (from his 2016 album Countdown) closed a set that ranks among the year's finest jazz performances at the Tiny Desk.”