Jay Rodriguez Sierra Reeds · Composer · New York
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Muthaflower

A double album and a suite of love tone-poems to the universe. Available now on all platforms.

Muthaflower album cover.

New double album

Ravel and Debussy meet the infinite voices of Africa

Muthaflower holds five years of hard work and pent-up musical expression since Your Sound, Jay’s 2018 album. It streams out as if a dam had burst, and even a double album could barely contain the soulfulness, energy and lyrical creativity that rushes out.

It’s a beautiful thunderstorm tearing across an arid desert plain, or the night sky with the moon and the imagined rings of Saturn. You may catch glimpses of Eric Dolphy, Wayne Shorter or Coltrane.

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Disc one

Mutha

An omnivorous palette that takes in Puccini and Dylan, Bach and Bill Withers, and Procol Harum. Jay plays woodwinds and saxophone.

With Alex Blake (acoustic bass), Victor Jones (drums), Marvin Sewell (guitar), Fred Wesley (trombone), Julie Patton (spoken word), and Ehab Omar, Chris, Andrew and Misha Theberge and Giovanni Hidalgo (percussion)

Disc two

Flower

Entirely Jay’s own compositions. Jay plays bass clarinet and flutes.

With Xavier Hill (drums), Henry Jeria (piano and keys), and percussionists Giovanni Hidalgo, Chris Theberge, Misha Theberge and Andrew Theberge

On Muthaflower

What musicians are saying

“The record is pure soul, pure groove… and pure NYC. This is the soundtrack for the block party of our dreams.”
Marc Ribot, on Muthaflower
“There is no BS in this music. It’s pure and soulful and it represents the beauty of the time we live in and the beauty that is Jay Rodriguez Sierra.”
Jeff Coffin, saxophonist
“Mr. Rodriguez moves between idioms and energies as easily as he switches instruments.”
Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times, Critic’s Pick

As a leader

Selected recordings

  1. MuthaflowerDouble album
  2. Live at the Fez, NYCLive recording
  3. Your Sound (Live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola)2018 · with Billy Harper, Larry Willis, Billy Martin, Eric Wheeler and JT Lewis
  4. Live in Italy2007 · featuring Chucho Valdés

As a co-founder of Groove Collective and a featured player on Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Jay also appears on many landmark recordings by other artists.