- Deron Johnson, photographer unknown, best known for his work with Miles Davis on Doo Bop and the pianist on Lady Blackbird 2021 smash hit Black Acid Soul returns. Listen hard to the very stirring 'Call Me Back': not only but because it is the speaking voice of Miles no less from a scratchy old answerphone message sent to Deron, the ''call me back'' message somehow but beautifully weaved into modal meditations from the American who was taught by the great US jazz icon Billy Childs back in the day and has absorbed so much of that remarkable lifeforce. The gloriously pristine trumpet part with Johnson and Mehliana drummer legend Mark Guiliana is Joey Curreri, a new generation US wiz whom we heard as an unknown when he was over in London playing at the Oxford in 2021
Deron Johnson was a poetic pianistic muse to Lady Blackbird on Black Acid Soul
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