Reggie Quinerly: New York Nowhere

Drummer and composer Reggie Quinerly first got my attention with his soulful album from 2018, Words of Love that had him supporting some rich vocalists. This time around, he teams up with a hip post bop team of Kenny Dorham-inspired trumpeter Antoine Drye, warm tenor saxist John Ellis, pianist John Chin and bassist Sean Conly for some hip  originals. Quinerly and Conly are a formidable team as they give a nice current to Drye’s clean brass on “Reflections on the Hudson” and the gentle “Celso”. Ellis and Drye form a vintage front line on the elegiac “Dreaming In Place” and give a rich blue milieu on “Wine Cooler Heads Prevail” while the team flexes its muscles on the rapid “New York Nights”. A jogger’s pulse of music.

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