The third album by this star-studded quintet, conceived in 2015 as a loose homage to Wayne Shorter, features 10 finely crafted originals — five each by tenor man Lovano and trumpeter Douglas — most of which bear Wayne’s fingerprints. The tunes act as launching pads for inspired solos and band interplay throughout a generous 70
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The quintet recorded Other Worlds in Brooklyn on January 31, 2020 after a weeklong engagement at the Village Vanguard. Those gigs clearly fine-tuned their group telepathy. Thankfully, they got the session in just under the Covid wire. Given its instrumentation and concept, the Soundprints assemblage begs comparison to Miles’s Great Quintet of the 1960s, the greatest small group in the history of jazz. Let’s just say that Lovano, Douglas and company stack up way better than most.