“In this moment I rejoice
In this moment I am still and free of choice
Full of breath, filled with noise
To the neck, I stand poised”
Laid out on a blanket of spacey, Roy Ayers-reminiscent jazz funk, Jay Stone flows of internal emotions, self-healing, and love on new album Stone Stu. The “Stu” refers to a stew of concepts: The stew of what we feed ourselves, the stew of sounds that make up the album, and the gumbo-like stew of collaborators, including Lauren Dupree, Anml Plnt, Sandu Ndu, and Oakland-born, Brooklyn-based rapper and producer Nappy Nina. It’s also a cute reference to Stone’s “brother from another” and the album’s primary producer Doug Stuart a.k.a. Dougie Stu, the LA-via-Oakland artist who has previously released his own solo jazz music as well as work with Brijean. Humble, full of gratitude, and brimming with taste, Stone Stu is in no rush and has nothing to prove but the fact of its own nourishment.
Celebrate the album release with Jay Stone this Friday, September 22 at Tamarack in Oakland.
