Carmen Lundy - Modern Ancestors (2019)

To our ears, there's nothing like a record from Carmen Lundy one of the few jazz singers who can hold us completely rapt over the years, and who keeps on coming up with wonderful albums like this one! Carmen's voice has always been fantastic, but in recent years she's got an even more majestic sense of her instrument tuned here to some tunes that really continue the more powerful lyrical approach she's used over the past decade or so with an agenda that's much larger than herself, and has righteous elements we never would have found in her earlier music! Lundy's also become quite the instrumentalist too and also handles guitar, Fender Rhodes, and even some larger orchestrations in a lineup that also features piano from Julius Rodriguez, bass from Curtis Lundy and Kenny Davis, and percussion from Mayra Casales. Titles include "A Time For Peace", "Burden Down Burden Down", "Jazz On TV", "Meant For Each Other", "Still", and "Affair Brazil".