Crate Digging: 10 Albums You Need To Know for March 2021

17/03/2021 36 min

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A legendary soul, funk and R&B outfit’s 50th-anniversary celebration; a bandleader’s love letter to his Southern roots and the heritage of Black Music; a tribute to a free jazz trailblazer.  All this and more in our list of ten albums out this month that you need to know about.
Gretchen Parlato, Flor (Edition)
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, Tone Poet (Blue Note)
Miguel Zenón, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel)
Behn Gillece, Still Doing Our Thing (Posi-Tone)
Jon Batiste, We Are (Verve)
Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)
Dr. Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Note)
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and The London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
Jim Snidero, Live at the Deer Head Inn (Savant)
Pat Metheny, Road to the Sun (BMG)
Tower of Power, 50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at the Fox Theater – Oakland, CA – June 2018 (Mack Avenue)