Saxophonist Isaiah Collier is an artist with a sense of tradition and respect for jazz's glorious past. For example, he recorded his album Cosmic Transitions (2021) in the studio of top sound engineer Rudy van Gelder, the same place where his great idol John Coltrane recorded the masterpiece A Love Supreme (1964). In doing so, Collier used the same analog equipment and also recorded his album on the birthday of the legendary “Trane”. Collier grew to musical maturity on Chicago’s vibrant jazz scene, after which he played with the collective Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood, among others, as well as accompanying three-time Grammy winner Chance The Rapper. Despite his fond connection to the spiritual jazz of Coltrane, Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders, with his band The Chosen Few, Collier also dares to reinvent himself which can be clearly heard on his fourth album Parallel Universe (2023). On it, he embraces funk, soul and gospel and once again affirms his tremendous diversity.
