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With The Chosen Few, Chicago/Brooklyn-based saxophonist Isaiah Collier is consistently making some of modern music’s most ecstatic, surging, and transportive sonic statements. The quartet’s latest full-length Cosmic Transitions is outstanding spiritual free jazz that gets the synapses firing in the collective, immortal brain that Roscoe Mitchell and Wayne Shorter tapped into, that John Coltrane dreamed his visionary dreams with. Coltrane connections extend to the album’s sessions as well. Recorded on Coltrane’s birthday, at the legendary Van Gelder studio, using the same gear that captured A Love Supreme, Collier and company channelled some heavy mystic energy into an instant classic of their own. As important as inspiration from the masters is, Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few “didn’t make the trip to kneel at the altar, they came to take up the torch and start new fires” (Free Jazz Collective).

The Chosen Few features Clarence Davis trumpet, Michael Shekwoaga Ode drums, Jeremiah Hunt bass, Davis Whitfield piano.