Brooklyn-based percussionist, drummer, vocalist, composer and bandleader Eric Frazier’s new recording That Place, Featuring Return of The Panther Woman, is an impressive and infectious collection that moves and grooves in multiple musical genres.

Frazier’s mastery of the conga, the trap drum, the djembe, and a multitude of percussion instruments, give him a wide percussive palette that encapsulates the wide dimensions of the African musical diaspora, from Afro-Caribbean beats to jazz.

Furthermore, Frazier’s wide world of rhythms span those grooves of his new album, That Place, Featuring Return of The Panther Woman.

1. The Panther Woman
2. Everything You Got To Give
3. Fresh Money
4. Mucho Caliente
5. You Don’t Know
6. Chili Pepper
7. It Gets Back To You
8. Bean Song
9. Graduation
10. In The Same Place
11. Mi Corozon
12. Fu Man Shu

Backed by an energetic ensemble that includes bassist and former Art Blakey Jazz Messenger Lonnie Plaxico and pianist Benito Gonzales, the album opens on the smoothly rhythmic The Panther Woman and then proceeds to bring us the upbeat Everything You Got To Give, the fervent Fresh Money, the Latin-tinged, hot to trot Mucho Caliente and then we get the melodic You Don’t Know and the aptly-titled funk tune Chili Pepper.

Along next is the smooth-grooved It Gets Back To You and the upbeat and soulful piano piece Bean Song and they are backed by the R&B-grooved Graduation, the dutifully summer-hued In The Same Place, the album rounding out on the drum-led Mi Corozon, closing on the invent storytelling that drives Fu Man Shu.

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