Jazz Articles about Ruben Ramon Ramos

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: Shaman!

by Chris May
July 24, 2020

California-based tenor saxophonist and composer Idris Ackamoor, who has one foot in magical realism and the other in the politicised school of spiritual-jazz, relaunched his 1970s band the Pyramids in 2015. A year later, the group released the acclaimed We Be All Africans, which was followed in 2018 by the equally noteworthy An Angel Fell (both on Strut). Shaman! is the revived Pyramids' third winner in a row. It is also the most ambitious album in Ackamoor's ...