Chicken Fat (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP BF30 Alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins follows-up

Alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins follows-up his acclaimed debut Omega (NY Times Best Jazz Album of 2020) with another striking album featuring his remarkable quartet with Micah Thomas on piano

pianist Aaron Parks

Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952

I’m Old Fashioned

Chicken Fat (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP BF30 Alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins follows-upGuitarist Mel Browns 1967 Impulse! debut is possibly both the funkiest and most unique album ever released on the label. Browns clean blues picking stylehoned while playing in John Lee Hookers and T Bone Walkers bandsmarinates funkily with the swinging soul jazz organ of Gerald Wiggins. Especially noteworthy are the title track, Greasy Spoon and the simmering lament of Im Goin to Jackson. Audio transferred from the analog tapes. Verve By Request