Drummer Kendrick Scott Releases New Single “One Door Closes, Another Opens” | WATCH NEW VIDEO! New Album “Corridors” is Out March 3rd, 2023

Drummer and Composer Kendrick Scott
Releases “One Door Closes, Another Opens”
With Accompanying Live Performance Video

Second Single From His Stunning New Trio Album Corridors
Featuring Walter Smith III & Reuben Rogers

Corridors is Out March 3rd via Blue Note Records

February 10, 2023: Today, drummer and composer Kendrick Scott released his new single “One Door Closes, Another Opens” with an accompanying live performance video. The song is the second single from his upcoming full-length Corridors — releasing March 3rd, Corridors is Scott’s third album for Blue Note Records, and his first compositional treatment of trio context: saxophone, bass, and drums. The follow-up to A Wall Becomes A Bridge, Scott’s much-lauded 2019 release with his band Oracle, Corridors unveils an exposed rumination from the Houston-born artist and his acclaimed collaborators: saxophonist Walter Smith III and bassist Reuben Rogers.

Equal parts somber and tender, “One Door Closes, Another Opens” pays tribute to loved ones lost and loved ones born during the pandemic. On this composition Scott incorporates his own vocal down in the mix. “I love to sing on my record but it’ll never be in the forefront,” he says. “I’m always singing, so it’s just a little window into how I hear music.” Originally commissioned by Rio Sakairi for The Jazz Gallery’s 2020 Artist Fellowship Series, Corridors features eight original compositions and one new arrangement of a beloved tune from the Bobby Hutcherson canon (“Isn’t This My Sound Around Me?”). Born during the pandemic lockdown, the record focuses on posing outward questions instead of inward contemplation. “I often write about something that I’m going through,” says Scott, “but for this record I wanted to zoom out from my perspective and instead, try to deal with everyone’s. The pandemic forced everyone to deal with the shadows they had been running from.”

Corridors reflects a shared intimacy and spotlights a different aspect of Scott’s expression in the pared down trio setting. A conceptual question emerged around loss: “What was taken away from everybody? What did you lose?” For Scott, who serves as album producer, this question became the impetus for assembling the album’s instrumentation. To create a truly empathetic musical gesture, he chose to abandon what he loves most: “In my band Oracle, it’s pretty much built around the guitar and the piano. I thought what I could do in aural form is take away those two instruments.”

From that intrinsically transitory point of origin — and the discomfort of loss — Scott allowed the music to develop, on the page and inside the studio. Over the course of the album, he and his fellow artists transform tension building into a nuanced art form. Summoning waves of harmonic dimension from the drum kit, he shifts between creating atmospheric spaces for Smith and Rogers to explore and plunging into those spaces himself.

“One of my strengths is creating a harmonic space for groups,” says Scott, “And the trio afforded me even more space so I too could be freer to interpret all the layers. Reuben navigates the world in such a genuine and loving way and his playing is a reflection of that. He’s the glue element — grounding and uplifting. And Walter has this sound that’s always been so beautiful and inspiring to me. Of my peers, Walter’s always been a guiding light.”

Corridors is available for pre-order on vinyl, CD, and digital.

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