muzycy:
Corey Wilkes: trumpet and flugelhorn
Kevin Nabors: tenor saxophone
Scott Hesse: guitar
Junius Paul: bass
Isaiah Spencer: drums
Jumaane Taylor: tap dance

CD of the Week: Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse: “Cries From tha Ghetto” (Pi Recordings). “Chicago trumpeter Wilkes made a strong impression last year with his debut CD, “Drop It,” and his follow-up proves still more striking. Pushing fearlessly into avant-garde territory on some tracks, burrowing deeply into bebop and hard-bop traditions on others, he documents the versatility of his art and the range of his imagination. He leads a high-powered Chicago band, with particularly heavy lifting from saxophonist Kevin Nabors and guitarist Scott Hesse.”
by Howard Reich Chicago Tribune

“I just think it’s brilliant, and shows yet another side of an extremely vibrant and complex player/composer who is one of the leading lights of a new progressive jazz generation.”
by Manny Theiner for the Post-Gazette

“The creative jazz ideas coming out of Chicago are not yet exhausted, and with bright young players like Corey Wilkes and his Abstrakt Pulse band around, it doesn’t look like like the flame will burn out anytime soon.”
by Pico Something Else! Reviews


One of the hottest young trumpeters on the scene today, Corey Wilkes shows off another side of his musical personality with his new release Cries from tha Ghetto. Unlike his prior release as a leader, Drop It, on which Wilkes focuses more on his funky soul side, Cries from tha Ghetto demonstrates a mid-60s Blue Note sensibility – think Freddie Hubbard’s Breaking Point or Lee Morgan’s Search for a New Land – melded with the influence of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Wilkes’ playing evinces the concise, bravura playing of Hubbard and Morgan combined with the more open style of Lester Bowie. Indeed, Wilkes was hand-picked by Roscoe Mitchell in 2003 to replace the irreplaceable Bowie as trumpeter in the Art Ensemble .......
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CD of the Week: Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse: “Cries From tha Ghetto” (Pi Recordings). “Chicago trumpeter Wilkes made a strong impression last year with his debut CD, “Drop It,” and his follow-up proves still more striking. Pushing fearlessly into avant-garde territory on some tracks, burrowing deeply into bebop and hard-bop traditions on others, he documents the versatility of his art and the range of his imagination. He leads a high-powered Chicago band, with particularly heavy lifting from saxophonist Kevin Nabors and guitarist Scott Hesse.”
by Howard Reich Chicago Tribune

“I just think it’s brilliant, and shows yet another side of an extremely vibrant and complex player/composer who is one of the leading lights of a new progressive jazz generation.”
by Manny Theiner for the Post-Gazette

“The creative jazz ideas coming out of Chicago are not yet exhausted, and with bright young players like Corey Wilkes and his Abstrakt Pulse band around, it doesn’t look like like the flame will burn out anytime soon.”
by Pico Something Else! Reviews


One of the hottest young trumpeters on the scene today, Corey Wilkes shows off another side of his musical personality with his new release Cries from tha Ghetto. Unlike his prior release as a leader, Drop It, on which Wilkes focuses more on his funky soul side, Cries from tha Ghetto demonstrates a mid-60s Blue Note sensibility – think Freddie Hubbard’s Breaking Point or Lee Morgan’s Search for a New Land – melded with the influence of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Wilkes’ playing evinces the concise, bravura playing of Hubbard and Morgan combined with the more open style of Lester Bowie. Indeed, Wilkes was hand-picked by Roscoe Mitchell in 2003 to replace the irreplaceable Bowie as trumpeter in the Art Ensemble .......
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