[Hidden Gem] The Visitors Motherland

I am not a huge fan of spiritual jazz. I do have some obvious names, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, or Kamasi Washington in my collection, but I don't play them that often. That said, there was something that drew me to Motherland and I am happy that I picked it up.

Motherland is not the meditative spiritual jazz you hear on Sanders' records, for example. This is more music in the vein of Coltrane, which makes sense, given that the Grubbs brothers, who led The Visitors, had studied with John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. And perhaps that's why I like it so much.

The quintet sounds like quite a force here. Every player gets enough time to explore their ideas. And ideas they have aplenty.

Motherland was long out of print, and I am happy that Craft Recordings decided to bring it out again.