Jon Dixon / Jt Donaldson / Abacus / Dfra / Jon Dixon / Jt Donaldson / Abacus / Dfra – Legendary / Silver Walker SW021 – Vinyl

Legendary is a bold title for an EP, but is fully justified in the case of this new 12″ from Silver Walker, which gathers some of house music’s best and most proven talents. Jon Dixon opens with the light, fluttering house stylings of ‘Five 15’, which have sax motifs adding a touch of classy hi-tech jazz. Dallas man JT Donaldson follows by folding jazz phrasing into a swinging, deep house framework with understated finesse. On the flip, Abacus delivers ‘A Gathering Of Griots’ a warm, melodic cut bathed in sunlight and label head DFRA closes with a tribute to the great Mike Huckaby that is driving but soft, reverential and with a bittersweet energy.