After 12 years, pianist Awadagin Pratt rediscovers his sweet spot

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After 12 years, pianist Awadagin Pratt rediscovers his sweet spot
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Absent from the recording studio for more than a decade, the restless musician has commissioned six composers for his new album.

explores the unknowable cusp between avowal and denial. Bookended by bird calls — uncanny vocalizations by Teeth singers — the music unfolds in episodes and, near the end, bursts open with a rapturous confluence of strings, voices and Pratt's piano, searching for what Prestini calls the"great moments of self-clarity."Black in America

, forged from the isolation of the pandemic and unrest over the murder of George Floyd. He's brought the presentation to university music schools across the country, weaving images from the civil rights movement and his own experiences with racial profiling into the performances.

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