Alex Hitchcock made his name as an emerging talent in London when he decided to move to New York City to, as he put it, “engage with the music being made here, because as a white British musician playing Black American music, engaging with the context in which that music is made is important.” Letters from Afar is his first shot across the bow from America, putting together a stellar band from the city’s local jazz scene. The songs are all Hitchcock originals, and the band plays the hell out of them. Lex Korten creates hypnotic groves behind the horns, and Harish Raghavan and Jongkuk Kim provide the complex rhythmic background for Hitchcock’s compositions. Having worked with some of the finest young musicians in London, Hitchcock makes good…

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