The Omnichord Real Book (2023)

"Over the past 30 years, the bassist and vocalist has lent her unique blend of spacious melodies, rooted grooves and intricate fingerpicking to tracks by everyone from Madonna to Herbie Hancock and Robert Glasper. Across her own albums, Ndegeocello has been honing this sound to create soulful music that interpolates R&B and hip-hop as much as the virtuosity of jazz. On her previous album "Ventriloquism", she reinterpreted R&B tracks from the 80s. Now she looks forward, producing a futuristic, original soundscape of jaunty synthpop and electronic R&B. Clattering electronic drum programming gives a modernist swing to tracks such as "Georgia Ave" and "Omnipuss". Features from vibraphonist Joel Ross on the balladic "Towers" and guitarist Jeff Parker on the fast-paced fusion of "ASR" are meanwhile anchored by Ndegeocello’s punchy bass playing, giving consistency to her genre-hopping palette. A confident imagining of her infectious future funk sound." (Observer; 4 uit 5 sterren)