John Carroll Kirby – Septet

The 2021 full-length release for John Carroll Kirby, the Los Angeles jazz composer/producer, features Logan Hone, David Leach, Nick Mancini, John Paul Maramba, Deantoni Parks, and Tracy Wannomae.

Its an expansive, summery jazz-funk crossover that lives and dies on its monster grooves. Septet is beautifully appointed make-out music, redolent of Adrian Younge, Miles Davis’s 1980s re-emergence and late 70s pre-electro Herbie Hancock.

2 x Vinyl, LP,

Tracklist:
A1 Rainmaker
A2 P64 By My Side
A3 Sensing Not Seeing
B1 Swallow Tail
B2 Weep
B3 Jubilee Horns
C1 The Quest of Chico Hamilton
C2 Nucleo
D1 Sensing Dub
D2 Jubilee Dub
D3 Nucleo Dub