For one night at the 2007 Berks Jazz Festival in Reading, Pa., a group
of musicians gathered to play soul music. This album is a product of
that night’s activities. Soul Summit consists of
instrumentalists such as Karl Denson and Jason Miles. Vocalists Maysa
and Susan Tedeschi perform on the disc, too. Expect covers with
skillful musicianship and that art known as soulful singing. How does
one describe the latter, really? As funk icon George Clinton declared
in 1970, “What is soul? I don’t know.” One can get a clue or two by
jamming to this.
