Release Date: July 12th, 2024
A vocal-piano duo with vocalist Milton Suggs and pianist Michael King released their debut recording on the Imani Records label. This album features the music of some of jazz’s most revered musicians and composers, such as Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Lee Morgan, with lyrics penned by Milton Suggs.
“A commanding singer…steeped in tradition…but with modern sensibilities.”- Downbeat Magazine
Due out August 11, 2023 via Orrin Evans’ Imani Records imprint, the adventurous trio features saxophonist/trumpeter Caleb Wheeler Curtis, bassist Noah Garabedian and drummer Vincent Sperrazza
“The individual approaches to modern melodic improvisation within the collective memory of the musicians soeasily rise to the surface… The union of the three is in many ways emblematic of the jazz scene growing in Brooklyn that often crosses lines of genre in joyous and innovative ways.” – Paul Rauch, All About Jazz
“The group’s collective improvisational spirit is effortless.” – Veronica Johnson, JazzTimes
Heatmap, due out July 15, 2022 via Imani Records, features pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Gerald Cleaver .
“Saxophonist Caleb Wheeler Curtis negotiates taut, bop-flavored contours with a meld of Desmond-like coolness and blues-toughened acerb.” – David Whiteis, JazzTimes
“Caleb Wheeler Curtis’ alto sax playing [is] intensely focused and garrulously inventive, digging deep into progressive bop through to post-Coltrane/Ornette free jazz and R&B-funk traditions.” – Selwyn Harris, Jazzwise
