Tyshawn Sorey makes Members… Don’t! a living argument with Max Roach’s fire

Tyshawn Sorey’s Members… Don’t! receives 25 June review attention, and it is clearly not a polite tribute record. The acclaimed drummer, composer and bandleader reimagines Max Roach’s 1968 album Members, Don’t Git Weary, using the original as spiritual guidepost rather than rigid repertoire. Recorded live as one uninterrupted suite at The Jazz Gallery in New York, Sorey’s version reportedly triples the original’s length and turns the material into a dense meditation on Black jazz inheritance, political struggle and unresolved grief. That approach suits Sorey, whose work has always made technical mastery feel secondary to moral and emotional architecture. Members… Don’t! sounds like jazz history being reopened in real time: not embalmed, not smoothed, but stretched until the old message starts speaking through new pressure.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tyshawn-sorey-members-dont/