Warren Wolf

On his eponymous debut, Warren Wolf will make it as apparent to jazz fans as it already is to jazz cognoscenti that the 31-year-old vibraphonist is the next major voice on his instrument. Joined by a team of major-league swingers (bassist Christian McBride, pianist Peter Martin, drummer Greg Hutchinson, alto and soprano saxophonist Tim Green, and, on two tracks, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt), Wolf offers a ten-piece playlist that admirably represents his singular blend of efflorescent chops, muscular attack, lyric sensibility, harmonic acumen, encyclopedic knowledge of hardcore jazz vocabulary, tireless groove and downright musicality.