Ulysses Owens Jr – Around the World with U (2026)

Ulysses Owens Jr. takes the classic hard bop sound and makes it pop with a youthful urgency on 2026’s Around the World with U. The album, which follows 2024’s New Beat, is the New York drummer and Julliard professor’s second with his Generation Y ensemble; a group who takes direct inspiration from the hard-driving style […]