The long distance Black Atlantic Cool Trio began with a Google Drive folder shared between Arkansas pianist, Precious Tucker, Colorado guitarist/bassist, Quinn Hudson, and California drummer, Anaiah Rasheed Muhammad. Their original compositions are shaped by Sun Ra’s curiosity, Solange’s risks, the Patrice Rushen Trio’s synchronicity, and Alice Coltrane’s transcendence. 

Their debut EP, Geographic Problem, was a December 2023 celestial celebration of Black internationalism and the historical interplay of jazz with the Black Power movement mirrored in Richard Brent Turner’s 2021 novel, Soundtrack To A Movement.

“This book argues that the values that Islam and jazz shared were key to the growth of African American Islamic communities, and that it was jazz musicians who led the way in shaping encounters with Islam as they developed a black Atlantic “cool” that shaped both religion and jazz styles as well as black masculinity and femininity. ” 

Their upcoming EP, Blackest Hue, is a love affair of chaos and fear that studies the unknown and asks questions without the guarantee of any answers. It’s releasing shortly before they begin their first tour on the West coast.