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Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Freedom Jazz Dance
by Derek Taylor
Kahil El’Zabar remains one of the reigning visionaries on the Chicago creative music scene. There is a consistency in his approach to his craft that carries through to all of his various recordings and working groups. His predilection for recycling compositions is tempered by the certainty that each new reading will result in something completely different than what has come before. This supreme consistency balanced with insightful innovation is especially apparent in his recordings for Delmark. In the decade or ...
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by Derek Taylor
African heritage and culture has been a fundamental facet of jazz music since its beginnings. The earliest rags of Buddy Bolden’s era were infused with variants of these traditions just as today’s creative Black music relies upon them for similar sustenance and direction. Few musicians reference these traditions as seriously and reverently as Chicagoan Kahil El’Zabar. Since he started forming his first collectives in the early 70s his music has been inextricably entwined with African ethnicity and consciousness. The Ethnic ...
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