A great deal of art is created to evoke the feeling of another time or place. Sometimes, a guitar riff can sound exactly like your 16th birthday, or the chorus of one song brings you back to the place where you met your last partner. It’s one of art’s superpowers, although it is typically only seen by the mind’s eye.

When it comes to the New York-based jazz and R&B duo, Acute Inflections , Sadiki Pierre and Elasea Douglas want you to actualize that feeling, physically and sonically sending you 100 years in the past to the peak of the Harlem Renaissance. Long before either of them was born, and likely decades before either of their parents was, counterculture in the 1920s and ‘30s was defined by the Harlem Renaissance. Birthed in the underbelly of African American art in New York City, t

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