Jamael Dean, Immanuel Wilkins invoked jazz's ancestors
Harmony Holiday believes the best jazz of 2021 reclaimed a spiritual genius, after what seems like decades of efforts to anesthetize it.
Catastrophic eras often inspire descents into an unkempt decadence that the music of those eras can't help but insinuate â however, sometimes even Dionysus refuses to emerge from the ruins, and our only option in the aftermath of disorienting upheaval is spiritual awakening and optimism, hedonism. That's our best bet
