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I Insist

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Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2021
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Tracks

Things Line Up; Coasts; Balance; Skylight; Haiti; I Insist; Happy Birthday; Parkside; This Spring; Understanding.

Personnel

Kazemde George

saxophone

Sami Stevens

vocals

Isaac Wilson

piano

Tyrone Allen II

bass, electric

Adam Arruda

drums

Album Description

'I Insist' is a reflection of the experiences, circumstances, and people that have made me who I am. Through this music, I hope to express my identity: my blackness, my manhood, my youth, and my full Caribbean-American self, along with all of the histories and systems that brought me here and now. I also hope that these songs reflect my many musical influences. My goal is to channel great masters like John Coltrane, J Dilla, and João Gilberto, as well as the teachers who have guided me, and the peers who I have competed with, learned from, and those who have encouraged or inspired me.

This music also reflects a learning process that I could not have realized without my many musical collaborators. That includes the musicians who have recorded on this project: Sami, Isaac, Adam and Tyrone, but also my greater musical community. I have been pulling out these charts on unsuspecting band members almost every week, at the various jam sessions and events I have hosted around Brooklyn for the past several years. That is how this music was developed, and that is where this music lives for me, but I am excited to let it venture out in this new format. I hope it finds you well!

I Insist is dedicated to my mother, Katrina Scott-George.

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