Hilliard Greene - Spirituals (2019)

Hilliard Greene has one of the most solid, swinging, deep sounds on the planet. Here he brings his devotion to the deepest of roots, the Negro Spiritual, into the ultra-personal lens of solo double-bass performance. The realm of the solo bass recording is a place where few dare to tread. With Barre Philips and Dave Holland among the earliest explorers, Hill Greene's bass (and occasionally his voice) sings in a way that evokes the existential ache that African-American artists feel at their core from the wickedness of slavery to the pernicious racism of the present while emanating a joyous confidence in a future of limitless possibilities.