The 7th Hand

The 7th Hand is the second studio album by American jazz bandleader Immanuel Wilkins.

[5] Giovanni Russonello writes in The New York Times, "The 7th Hand," Wilkins's newly released second album, confirms the quartet's commanding status on the scene.

On tunes like "Don't Break" and "Shadow," Wilkins and Thomas play the melody in loosely locked unison, shifting in and out of keys, tilting and rocking the harmonic floor beneath them.

Moving like this, Wilkins can switch emotional registers, even genres, with the flick of a wrist: A simple blues lick transposes into what sounds like a heart-tugging soul line, then scrambles up into something that's undeniably jazz"[2] Thom Jurek from AllMusic writes "The 7th Hand is a major work.

It travels dazzlingly from tranquility and comfort to ambivalence, restlessness, and impatience before it engages re-entry, rebirth, and transcendence.