Childs Billy

"On my first Mack Avenue recording, Rebirth (Billy Childs' 2017 album which won a GRAMMY(c) Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album), I wanted to return to a focus on my jazz piano playing," Childs states. "Acceptance is an extension of that, and the musicians make it very comfortable for me." Childs thrives on group improvisation and has recruited fellow master musicians-saxophonist Steve Wilson, bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Eric Harland-as the core ensemble for this collection: Acceptance. Elena Pinderhughes on flute; vocalists Alicia Olatuja, Aubrey Johnson and Sara Gazarek; and percussionists Rogerio Boccato and Munyungo Jackson complete the stellar lineup on this recording.

Since his debut album in 1985, pianist and composer Billy Childs has garnered six GRAMMY(c) Awards and an astounding seventeen nominations, most recently winning Best Jazz Instrumental Album for The Winds of Change (2023). Triumvirate, Childs' first trio recording in 25 years, harnesses the energy and creative prowess of his touring group - bassist Matt Penman and drummer Ari Hoenig - into a masterclass of material revisited from his earliest recordings, within an intimate setting of equal parts lineage and evolution.