LA-based vocalist Dwight Trible is one of the few unique singers around. He’s got his own style, a mix of Paul Robeson gravitas with an Oscar Brown sense of gospel, and a flexibility all his own. This most recent album is a perfect place to start with him, as it shows all of his strengths and musical vision. Teamed with a core of Mark de Clive-Lowe/p, John B. Williams/b and Ramses Rodriguez/dr, he mixes and matches with guests Kamasi Washington/ts, Maia/harp, Miguel Atwood Ferguson/viola, Derf Reklaw/perc and Carlos Nino/handperc for a wide ranging panorama of sounds and passions.
Teamed with Washington’s room filling tenor, Trible’s clear and open voice sears through the gallop on a passionate title track, while with the addition of Ferguson’s viola, an encyclopedic and world encompassing take of the traditional spiritual “Standing in the Need of Prayer” is given an rich exclamatory read that would shake any Sunday School rafters. A world of psychedelia takes place with funky drumming searing sax and Trible’s sky opening voice on an wider ranging version of The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” while he preaches with a bluesy organ on Donny Hathaway’s “Thank You Master.”
He’s able to get dark and dramatic as on Oscar Brown’s own “Brother, Where Are You” and endearingly rich with Clive-Lowe on an affectionate “Song For My Mother.” The combination of musical colors all the more add to the precision yet elasticity of this major artist. Fresh, vibrant and swinging in the best of ways. The Anti-Buble’.