Melissa Aldana has returned with Echoes Of The Inner Prophet, the follow-up to the saxophonist’s Grammy-nominated Blue Note debut 12 Stars. The album is a “musical voyage to explore the depth of the spiritual journey.”

Featured on the album are Aldana’s quintet with Lage Lund (guitar), Fabian Almazan (piano), Pablo Menares (bass) & Kush Abadey (drums). Meanwhile, the album’s title track pays homage to Wayne Shorter, the Jazz pioneer who sat on the judges’ panel at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition that Aldana won in 2013.

She says that the album reflects her “personal journey, with an especially introspective point of view. The inner prophet is my own self, now older, who has the knowledge and the intuition and the truth about what my path should be.”

Melissa Aldana will be celebrating the album’s release on April 10 at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz At Lincoln Center in New York City with additional tour dates across the U.S. & Europe in the coming months.