Wu Hen

Syed Adam Jaffrey recorded and mixed it and Beau Thomas mastered it; the cover painting is by Othelo Gervacio. Guests include Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on strings, Quinn Mason on saxophone, Greg Paul on drums, Rick James on bass and Alina Bzhezhinska on harp. The title came from a nickname from his maternal grandmother and a nod to Wu Dynasty ancestry; he first intended Wu Han, and changed it to avoid pandemic stigma. Passion of the Weiss reports the band recorded in about a week in Peckham, followed by six months of post-production, while Wikipedia says recording was finished in Morocco on April 13, 2020, and the accounts are unreconciled.

It reached 2 on the UK Jazz and Blues chart and 15 on the UK Independent chart. Metacritic scores it 80: the Line of Best Fit gave 8 of 10, Loud and Quiet 9, Pitchfork's Andy Beta 7.3 and Crack 6; Crack called it the kind of album you would only get from a proper crate-digger.