Robert Mitchell's Panacea: The Cusp – review

(Edition)Last year, Robert Mitchell released the best album of his career with a piano-trio session that stretched the scope of one of the most familiar formats in jazz. The Cusp returns to knottier territory that Mitchell has long been preoccupied by – expository subject matter, classical chamber-group techniques, soul and R&B vocal sounds – in his octet Panacea. The pure sound of singer Deborah Jordan curls around Empirical drummer Shaney Forbes's staccato funk on the opening Essence. Mitc...

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