With Robert Glasper on keys, and sounding in fine fettle indeed, soul singer Leon Bridges' jazz direction on 'Born again' one significant element on Gold-Diggers Sound (Columbia) is a thrill. Listen closely and there's some fine horn work just itching to go further beyond the ache and the tearing soulfulness inherent in Brdges' sound cutting the air. Check the very fine horn arrangement passage near the ''But it feels good comin' home'' line around the 2:40 mark especially. Down here in marlbank we adored Bridges' 2019 song 'That Was Yesterday' and now hearing him change his style towards jazz on this track the Bridges story becomes a page-turner once again giving the track's deeply transcendent quality and deep emotion delivered so spectacularly.
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