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Alex Harding

Open Me: A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit

By Kahil El'Zabar

Label: Spiritmuse
Released: 2024
Track listing: All Blues; Barundi; The Whole World; Return Of The Lost Tribe; Hang Tuff; Can You Find A Place; Great Black music; Passion Dance; Ornette; Compared To What; Kari; Open Me.

Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Open Me: A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit

by Chris May
February 23, 2024

The first few bars of Open Me: A Higher Consciousness Of Sound And Spirit promise the listener is in for a treat. Corey Wilkes' muted trumpet plays Miles Davis' “All Blues" counterpointed by Alex Harding's rugged baritone saxophone and Kahil El'Zabar's ankle bells and kalimba. Here is Ethnic Heritage Ensemble in all its enchanting bare-bones singularity, ...

Lafayette Gilchrist, John McLaughlin, Cannonball Adderley and More

by Jerome Wilson
January 24, 2024

This is an older show from December 2021 that features several different pianists and saxophonists. Musicians heard include Lafayette Gilchrist, Cannonball Adderley, John McLaughlin, Noah Haidu, Chet Doxas, and more. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...

Spirit Gatherer: Tribute to Don Cherry

By Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Don Cherry; Lonely Woman; Evocation; Degi-Degi; Sketches of A Love Supreme; Bop On; Holy Man; Well You Needn't; The Opening; Harvest Time; Spirit Gatherer.

Blues to Be There

By RJ Spangler

Label: Eastlawn Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Spacemen; Pie Eye’s Blues; Chinoiserie; Blues to Be There; Moon Maiden; The Swingers Get the Blues Too; Blow by Blow; Tigress; Almost Cried; Purple Gazelle; Way Early Subtone; Take the ‘A’ Train; UMMG; Bonga; Moonbow; VIP’s Boogie/Jam with Sam.

Chris May's Best Albums Of 2023

by Chris May
December 4, 2023

Another great year for recorded jazz. Fourteen of 2023's most special albums are presented here. Eight are new recordings and six are reissues or previously unreleased archive items. Joint Number One Best New Albums Of 2023 Irreversible Entanglements Protect Your Light Impulse! There are two contendors for the slam-dunk ...

Kahil El'Zabar: Quiet Shaman of Spiritual Jazz

by Chris May
April 20, 2023

Percussionist, kit drummer and composer Kahil El'Zabar founded the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble back in 1977. The group's sixteenth album, the gritty, groovecentric and exquisitely lyrical Spirit Gatherer: Tribute To Don Cherry (Spiritmusic), will be released on April 21, 2023. The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble has seen relatively few personnel changes during its long history. ...

Planet D Nonet: Blues to Be There

by Jack Bowers
April 11, 2023

The subtitle of Blues to be There, the Detroit-based Planet D Nonet's latest album (recorded in June and July 2022), is “A Salute to Duke Ellington." As with almost any bow to the Duke, it encompasses a healthy measure of Billy Strayhorn as well. Ellington wrote or co-wrote thirteen of the album's persuasive numbers, Strayhorn five ...

Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Spirit Gatherer

by Chris May
April 7, 2023

Anyone who was chair of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians for a decade knows a thing or two about keeping a group of independently minded artists focused on a common goal. Drummer and percussionist Kahil El'Zabar continues to demonstrate that with his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, an acoustic, improvising trio with an African foundation ...