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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Chicago composer/cornetist Ben LaMar Gay and his band (Matthew Davis, Tommaso Moretti, and Will Faber) also features contributions by Rob Frye, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu, Tramaine Parker, and Ayanna Woods.
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- Record Label: International Anthem
- Genre(s): Jazz, Blues
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UncutJun 25, 2025In both rhythm and spirit, Yowzers is slippery and free. Yet where the record coalesces into songs, it tends to speak the raw, direct language of soul music and the blues. [Aug 2025, p.36]
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Jun 25, 2025While the variety of styles and approaches on display is mesmerising if not dizzying, the cuts on Yowzers feel as if they truly belong together, connected by an intangible thread – a sensibility which eclipses pure aesthetics and bridges concepts, worlds, and compositions across boundaries.
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MojoJun 25, 2025Gay's treacly voice and keening cornet pierce the static on another initially oblique musical jigsaw, whose pieces begin to fit after a few listens. [Aug 2025, p.85]
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The WireJun 25, 2025Yowzers is Gay’s most cohesive work to date, while losing none of its predecessors’ spirit of adventure. [Jul 2025, p.59]
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Jul 8, 2025Yowzers is a tighter, more intimate affair, an invitation into the inner circle.