OffBeat Magazine
If Newvelle’s intent is to make albums that are stand-alone works of art, this is a masterpiece. Once more the black and white cover portrait speaks volumes. Marsalis would not live to see this album released, but the cover reveals a man totally at peace with himself, Zen in the moment. Marsalis looms so large in the New Orleans piano tradition, yet he is off on a tangent of his own, not travelling the same waters that the Professors took, but looking through jazz passageways to a world outside. This music reveals him as thoroughly as the cover portrait. On the sparse solo piano “E’s Knowledge” every note counts, especially the softest touch as Marsalis displays superb control of low volume dynamics and an awesome command of note choices and placements. The pauses sing as loudly as the strokes of the keyboard.