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Got My Wings

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Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 00:35:17
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Tracks

Red Tara; Got My Wings; Heart Connection; Pema; Just Because You're Out; Doesn't Mean You're Free

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Bryan Copeland, drums; Mike Sempert, sound design (on tracks 2 and 6); Jarvis Jay Masters, voice (on track 6)

Album Description

Adhyâropa Records is thrilled to announce Got My Wings, the new album by internationally acclaimed saxophonist and composer Dan Blake. Got My Wings is dedicated to Jarvis Jay Masters, whose memoir That Bird Has My Wings inspired this work. Jarvis' spiritual journey has unfolded over decades of brutal and unjust incarceration, and his life is a testament to the human capacity for finding freedom without losing our dignity and deep love for one other. Got My Wings is a ballet work choreographed by Tomiko Magario and premiered in 2022 by Westchester Ballet Company at Bethany Arts Community (Ossining, NY). With support from Humanities New York, the work is also an educational project helping students and educators think about the arts as a vehicle for thinking about criminal justice. Visit www.gotmywings.org for more info. The work has led to meaningful partnerships with a range of educators, advocates, and organizations working on the front lines in the struggle for justice such as ENUBuilds, Darrian Bennett, Tom Ray, Charles Moore and Rehabilitation Through The Arts, Release Aging People from Prison (RAPP), Sing Sing Family Collective, and the campaign to exonerate Jarvis Jay Masters.

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