Hidden Voices in the NPR Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2016

"The year's best piano trio album (with Eric Revis on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums) lets you imagine what it must have been like first hearing Andrew Hill on Blue Note in the 1960s. Ortiz has shown enormous potential on a handful of earlier recordings as a sideman or leader, and here he delivers on that potential and then some. His taste in covers is inspired (Monk's "Skippy" and a pair by Ornette Coleman), his attack is bracingly percussive and his phrases come at you in waves or shards."