Immanuel Wilkins
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The 7th Hand is a major work. It travels dazzlingly from tranquility and comfort to ambivalence, restlessness, and impatience before it engages re-entry, rebirth, and transcendence. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, February 2022
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, January 2022
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th February 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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The American musician shifts away from 12-bar blues to ‘an energy’ in this mix of seven originals and Monk and Coltrane covers… An innovative homage to tradition. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, March 2024
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2024
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Passage
RecommendedJohnathan Blake (cymbals, drums), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Joel Ross (vibraphone), David Virelles (piano, keyboards, rhodes), Dezron Douglas (acoustic bass guitar)
The drummer and his sparkling Pentad quintet deliver fascinating narrative shifts on this Blue Note release. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, September 2023
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2023
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a glorious, variegated feast of discreetly OUTOF/INTO modernised post-bop that ranges from good-time rolling and tumbling to mellow introspection. The music is tightly-packed but very approachable... —
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Overall, the music dances with the unencumbered abandon of a 6-year-old. “Shakin’ the Biscuits” is Eddie Harris-styled jazz-funk, fun and fierce. “Abiyoyo” is a waltz-like African lullaby that... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th December 2021
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The Guardian, Jazz Album of the Month, November 2021
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Some retain his lugubrious delivery, allowing the songs’ poetic language to do the heavy lifting, while others treat them as springboards for more inflected interpretations, but all are compelling... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Jazz Choice
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With Who Are You?, Ross has crafted another highly engaging small-group album that more than answers the question at hand. —
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, October 2020
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Wilkins’ focussed tone and use of pentatonics reference the work of Kenny Garrett, and this is most apparent on the slowburns of ‘Grace and Mercy’ and ‘Warriors’, the album’s opening track.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th August 2020
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Purest Form
James Francies (keyboards, piano, spoken word), Brenda Francies (narrator), Jeremy Dutton (drums), Burniss Travis III (bass), Immanuel Wilkins (saxophone), Peyton (vocals), Elliott Skinner (vocals), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Mike Moreno (guitar), Sulamit Gorski (violin), Tia Allen (viola), Marta Bagratuni...
What stands out the most on Purest Form is the beguiling beauty of some of the textures, particularly ballads such as ‘Melting’ and ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, where Francies has chosen exactly the kind... —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, August 2021
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