Julius Rodriguez was born a musician. He was playing in his church band and learning theory before his adult teeth came in, sat in at Smalls Jazz Club for the first time at 11, and at 20, dropped out of Juilliard to tour with his friends Onyx Collective as A$AP Rocky's backing band.
Since then, he's played with a line of legends stretching from the Wu-Tang Clan to Meshell Ndgeocello to the late, great Roy Hargrove and beyond.
And now, at 23, he's announced his debut album — Let Sound Tell All, due out June 10 on Verve — and shared its lead single, "Gift Of The Moon." The new song is a cosmic jazz saga that starts with a mesmeric two-chord cadence and expands into something colossal yet sleek and reserved, with Rodriguez on Rhodes piano, Jongkuk “JK” Kim on drums, Daryl Johns on bass, and Giveton Gelin on trumpet.
It comes with a visualizer, premiering here, that renders the group's performance in overlapping sketches, emphasizing the effortless aura of harmony and groove the players project.
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