"Out Late" from saster pianist Eric Scott Reed is an invigorating top-shelf session, capturing the late-night vibrations of New York City and featuring an incredible lineup with trumpeter Nicholas Payton, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Joe Farnsworth.

"Every city has its own late night vibration," says Reed. "No shade to Paris or Vegas or Philly or Los Angeles, but being in New York City is not like being anywhere else in the world."

"Out Late" references the life of the musicians - the nightlife and the activity, the feeling and the energy of those NYC vibrations." Anyone who has followed Reed's remarkable story in recent years will immediately catch the double meaning embedded in the title as well. Coinciding with the release of his revelatory 2023 Smoke Sessions album "Black, Brown and Blue," Reed made the decision to exist openly in his sexuality, a decision that he feels has also led to a newfound openness and freedom in his musical life.