That Depends on What You Know: 1:3 The Sirens Return / Keep It Real ‘Til It Flatlines

Personnel: Atiba Wilson, Bruce Mack, Davida Tretout, Eisa Davis, Greg Tate, Honeychild, Jared Michael Nickerson, Jason DiMatteo, Kirk Douglas, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Lewis "Flip" Barnes, Maximina Juson, Monet Dunham, Morgan Craft, Mugabe, Myles Reilly, Nioka Workman, Qasim Naqvi, Rene Akan, Satch Hoyt, Shahzad Ismaily, Shariff Simmons, Shoshana Vogel, Suphala, Swiss Chris, Tia Nicole Leak, Vernon Reid, Vijay Iyer

“That Depends on What You Know, has really thrown a wrench into the increasingly calcified "jazz canon." "Two Bass Blipsch" from disc 1 (an obvious reference to John Lewis and Dizzy Gillespie's "Two Bass Hit") opens with Vijay Iyer playing the piano strings with such rhythmic precision that it sounds like it's been "looped"; once Tate brings the drums in percussion becomes the improvisational driving force. While everything is improvised, Tate uses conduction to create particular conversations and dialogues, as in the way he brings out Eisa Davis's voice interpolating triplet figures.”
by  Robin D.G Kelley
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