Bernie Worrell - Standards (2011)

"Focus your ears on Bernie's playing and you'll hear a comprehensive sonic montage of a vibrantly creative spirit. His music is rife with wit, aggression, sensitivity and mischief, all of it interspersed in a tangential stream of consciousness. This is no series of contradctions, however; rather, these are the nuanced components of a man, all of them coalesced into an organic pastiche that is at once both delightfully whimsical and timelessly wise. There is an undeniably lyrical quality to his playing - not so much in any narrative sense as in the capacity to express feelings through his dexterous sound sculpture." - Larry Alexander