William Hooker Quartet - Lifeline (2018)

The music is post-Ornette-isque and strongly influenced by the new jazz of the sixties. It's kept the heat, glow and effervescence of black magma, but at the same time Hooker has succeeded in carrying it further with personal changes of his own. He whisks up an almost ritual atmosphere in which all the different voices are woven together by the drums into a multi-hued glistening weave of bright colors. This is a most remarkable alb and well worth hearing.