Tivon Pennicott: The Tiller

As heard on his cosmic new album, Spirit Garden (New Phrase Records, 2020), New York-based tenor saxophonist, Tivon Pennicott, is a sonic healer. Not only does his latest record convey the late-thirties artist's masterful composing abilities, it shows his deep engagement with everyday struggles yet also his effort to transcend them with his great willpower and generosity. Earthbound yet galactic, world-mired yet majestic, Spirit Garden is one of the finest, most assured jazz releases of the past five years and only could have been made by someone as spiritually involved and disarmingly humble as Pennicott.

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