Smoke Sessions

Overall this is classy, beautifully played jazz of the highest order, and with a level of perfection that many aspire to but few attain. — Jazzwise, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Payton showcases the timelessness of Carter and Coleman’s skill —their ineffable capacity to slot into new combinations and compositions with the open-eared willingness to swing. Theirs is the... — Downbeat, December 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Escoffery devotes four of the album’s 10 tracks to a jazz reconfiguration of composer Benjamin Britten’s choral work Missa Brevis In D, which he’d sung as a child… Most delightful of all is... — Downbeat, June 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…