DIGIPACK EDITION

Unknown Rivers is bassist Luke Stewart’s debut for Pi Recordings. An omnipresent and galvanizing force on the music scene, Stewart is a leader or co-leader of such bands as Irreversible Entanglements – whose new release Protect Your Light DownBeat called “a fascinating work of art whose existence is exactly what it’s supposed to be, perfectly in place on the great curve of the universe” – along with his Exposure Quintet, Blacks’ Myths, Heart of the Ghost, and Remembrance Quintet.

Also named by DownBeat as one of “Twenty-Five Performers Who Could Shape Jazz for Decades,” he is also among the most in-demand collaborators, having performed with the likes of David Murray, Archie Shepp, Wadada Leo Smith, Nicole Mitchell, Moor Mother, Jaimie Branch, Nate Wooley, William Hooker, Ken Vandermark, Marshall Allen, Gary Bartz, Billy Hart, Shabaka, Hamid Drake, Douglas Ewart, and countless others. Stewart is also a curator and presenter of multiple concert series in Washington, D.C. (he is a co-founder of Capital Bop, which is dedicated to promoting, presenting and preserving jazz in that city) and New York, a writer, activist, producer and D.J.

PERSONNEL:

Luke Stewart - (bass)
Brian Settles - (tenor saxophone)
Trae Crudup - (drums on track 1-4)
Chad Taylor - (drums on track 5-7)

TRACKS:

01. Seek Whence
02. Baba Doo Way
03. You See?
04. The Slip
05. Amilcar
06. Dudu
07. Unknown Rivers