George Burton - Reciprocity (2020)

"Everyone knows that there's no tougher act to follow than oneself. But with his second album, Reciprocity, George Burton has more than proven his talent, creating a modernist landscape that draws on the trajectory of jazz going back to the blues - and establishes him as an oracular presence in a new generation of musicians. Like Orpheus, whose bewitching lyre playing kept the Argonauts from succumbing to the Sirens' song, Burton weaves a counter spell to the Sirens of today - that call for conformity, kitsch and the politicization of music. Burton knows that jazz is all that we have left of a mystery theater: his music is more than the scene, more than the rules; each song is a vista onto a new world."