Description
It has been a long time since there was a blues album with so many tracks in high beats per measure and this brings a remarkably good mood to Sonic Departures, the tenth studio album of the Canadian blues guitarist and singer JW-Jones. In part, it’s also highlighted by the complete horn section with 13-pieces, bringing the Big Band’s body and soul to the tracks.
Sonic Departures is an album that definitely marks the Big Band’s return to the blues scene. The nice mood of the songs, selected horns insertions, perfect guitar tones (that perfectly match with the horns), clean harmony, and vocals, all make this album a bright light among the blues albums released in 2020. With Sonic Departures, there’s no doubt that JW-Jones has achieved his main goal of exchanging isolation to inspiration.
