Evergreen
Verve 653767 (CD, LP, DL)
Julius Rodriguez (p, ky, syn, d, b, g, cl, prog), Luke Titas, Brian Richburg (d), Nicole McCabe (as), Nate Mercereau (syn, g), Philip Norris (el b, b, d), Jermaine Paul (b), Emilio Modeste (s), Alonzo Demetrius, Keyon Harrold (t), Declan Miers (b), Chris Lewis (ts), Jay Adlher and Georgia Anne Muldrow (v). Rec. date not stated
Drummer, pianist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and (since he’s still only 25) wunderkind Julius Rodriguez has spent several years as a sideman for some ofAmerica’s brightest: Kurt Elling, Keyon Harrold and Wynton Marsalis among them. As a long-time member of Isaiah Barr’s Onyx Collective he’s collaborated with A$AP Rocky and members of the Wu Tang Clan, and has cited influences – Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk – passed…
