“Absolutely top quality soul music…. Really is outstanding” – Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music

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“I’m expecting big things from him” – Trevor Nelson, BBC Radio 2

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“Be The Change: Powerful, thought provoking, necessary…” – JazzMoodsRadio.com

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“The album presents eleven originals that aim to speak to the hearts of the people and reflect the contemporary social climate” – Jazziz magazine

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"An instant classic that would have fit just as comfortably in 1970 as it does in 2020.” - SoulTracks

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“I love Jarrod’s voice.  ‘Be The Change’ is so beautiful” – Louie Vega

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“A half-dozen years on from a debut that took us all by surprise the man from Portland has repaid our patience with another wonderful selection of work….Excellence is everywhere” – Echoes

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"Reinvigorating the soul/jazz genre, Lawson swings, scats and—above all—grooves, with an enthusiasm and joy much lacking in the genre and, more broadly, in our lives today" – Elmore magazine

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“Soul doesn’t get any better than this in 2020!  Unquestionably Album of the Year” – Soul Brother Records, London

 

“Jarrod Lawson delivers the Record of the Year.  ‘Universal Chord’ is an instant classic…” – GinaLovesJazz.com, Berlin

 

“While we’ve loved Lawson before, this album is his crowning achievement to date – the kind of set that really pushes him over the top, and which earns the term ‘instant classic’ in our book” – DustyGroove.com, Chicago

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“2020 has been a brutal year for humankind.  Be The Change arrives as a salve, displacing noise with music, pain with healing…definitely an album for our time” – torontoArm

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“Six years have passed since his rapturously received debut album, so these tracks certainly haven’t been rushed.  Au contraire, each one has been lovingly burnished to a deep-down sheen of perfection” – London Jazz News