Who Are You?

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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. — AllMusic, October 2020, 4 and a half out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 23rd Oct 2020
Catalogue No: 0712749
Label: Blue Note
Length: 69 minutes

AllMusic

Editor's Choice

October 2020

Jeremy Dutton: Dream

Work length3:32

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Jeremy Dutton (drums), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Jeremy Corren (piano)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Kanoa Mendenhall: Calling

Work length1:01

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Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Joel Ross (music production), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ross, Joel: Home

Work length9:08

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Jeremy Dutton (drums), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Jeremy Corren (piano)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ross, Joel: More?

Work length4:13

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Jeremy Dutton (drums), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Jeremy Corren (piano)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Coltrane: After the Rain

Work length5:20

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Jeremy Corren (piano), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Jeremy Dutton (drums), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Brandee Younger (harp)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ambrose Akinmusire: Vartha

Work length10:35

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Jeremy Corren (piano), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Jeremy Dutton (drums), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ross, Joel: Marsheland

Work length3:43

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Jeremy Dutton (drums), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Jeremy Corren (piano)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ross, Joel: Waiting On a Solemn Reminiscence

Work length4:07

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Jeremy Dutton (drums), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Jeremy Corren (rhodes)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Emily Margaret Beatrice Cowings: King's Loop

Work length1:02

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Joel Ross (vibraphone), Brandee Younger (harp), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ross, Joel: The Nurturer

Work length3:17

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Jeremy Dutton (drums), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Joel Ross, Gabrielle Garo: Gato's Gift

Work length6:08

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Brandee Younger (harp), Jeremy Corren (piano), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Jeremy Dutton (drums), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ross, Joel: When My Head Is Cold

Work length6:44

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Brandee Younger (harp), Jeremy Corren (piano), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Jeremy Dutton (drums), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ross, Joel: Harmonee

Work length1:55

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Jeremy Dutton (drums), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Brandee Younger (harp)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ross, Joel: Such Is Life

Work length4:13

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Jeremy Dutton (drums), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Jeremy Corren (piano)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

Ross, Joel: 3-1-2

Work length5:01

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Jeremy Dutton (drums), Joel Ross (vibraphone), Kanoa Mendenhall (bass), Immanuel Wilkins (alto saxophone), Jeremy Corren (piano)
Recorded: 2019
Recording Venue: GSI Studios

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In 2019, vibraphonist & composer Joel Ross issued his Blue Note debut KingMaker to peer acknowledgment and wide critical acclaim. An introduction to his longstanding outfit Good Vibes, the album received nods from The New York Times’ Best Jazz of 2019, NPR Music’s Jazz Critics Poll and Rolling Stone’s 2019 Jazz Listener’s Guide. Now, expanding the breadth of his expression with his second release Who Are You?, the young artist has actualized his sound.

“This record is a culmination of our maturing – as people, as a band, within the music – it’s about figuring out who we are,” says Ross. Who Are You? features familiar Good Vibes associates Jeremy Corren on piano, Immanuel Wilkins on alto saxophone and Jeremy Dutton on drums, and introduces their newest collaborator, Kanoa Mendenhall on bass. Harpist Brandee Younger is also featured on five of the album’s tracks.

Inspired by communication through storytelling – a method he absorbed, in part, working with such creative forces as Ambrose Akinmusire, Marquis Hill and Makaya McCraven – and with input from producer Walter Smith III, Ross assembled the album’s narrative in halves. Tracks 1-7 provide setting, as well as character introductions; tracks 8-15, plot twists. Each artist advances the spirit of risk-taking, while maintaining Ross’ vision for story structure.

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October 2020

With Who Are You?, Ross has crafted another highly engaging small-group album that more than answers the question at hand.

December 2020

In the right hands the vibraphone can excel for its delicacy of tone and shimmering lyricism, and Ross upholds those values in no uncertain terms with pieces such as ‘More?’ in which he and his quartet conspire to hover on the melody and pulse of the music in a manner that loosely recalls the heyday of masters such as Bobby Hutcherson and the somewhat overlooked Jay Hoggard.

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