Escape Velocity is a Jazz album by Theo Croker, originally released in 2016. On Gatefold: 6 pressings tracked.
Sound DNA
- Jazz
About
Trumpeter Theo Croker’s third album blends the celestial spiritual jazz modalities of Pharoah Sanders with funky, Donald Byrd-esque vamps and organ-drenched fusions reminiscent of Lonnie Liston Smith. But it’s hardly a retro affair, with crisp brass lolling to a contemporary R&B bump (“No Escape from Bliss”) or skittering to broken-beat rhythms (“The Right Time”). When Croker teams with his mentor, singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, for a clubby remake of her “Love from the Sun,” or trades rippling solos with his DVRK FUNK bandmates on “We Can’t Breathe,” he rockets jazz into new sonic orbits.
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Tracklist
- 1Raise Your Vibrations2:04
- 2Transcend3:52
- 3This Could Be4:45
- 4In Orbit3:29
- 5No Escape from Bliss3:53
- 6The Right Time2:51
- 7A Call to the Ancestors2:00
- 8Meditations5:06
- 9We Can't Breathe5:00
- 10It's Gonna Be Alright3:23
- 11Because of You4:54
- 12Real Episode2:31
- 13Love from the Sun (feat. Dee Dee Bridgewater)4:27
- 14Changes4:30
- 15Rahspect (Amen)2:07
Credits
Performers
- Eric WheelerACOUSTIC BASS ELECTRIC BASS VOCALS
- Irwin HallALTO SAXOPHONE BASS CLARINET ALTO FLUTE
- Kassa OverallDRUMS PERCUSSION DRUM
- Ben EunsonELECTRIC GUITAR
- Michael KingELECTRIC PIANO SYNTH ORGAN
- Theo CrokerTRUMPET VOCALS SYNTH
- Femi TemowoELECTRIC GUITAR
- Dee Dee BridgewaterVOCALS
- Anthony WareBARITONE SAXOPHONE
6 pressings tracked on Gatefold