Jazz Articles about Auntie Occident

Auntie Occident & The Free Radicals: Brothers, Let Us Prey

by Victor Verney
April 1, 2007

Music has galvanized activists during some of modern history's most revolutionary moments, from gospel chants doubling as hidden messages for runaway slaves to Joan Baez's rendition of “We Shall Overcome" during the March on Washington. Today, these are the style of torch songs performed by Auntie Occident & the Free Radicals, a jazz vocal quintet out of Berkeley, California.Employing sophisticated jazz arrangements and lush five-part harmonies on a broad range of material from across the musical spectrum, they ...