Lost Tribe

Lost Tribe: Calle Siete

by Mike Jacobs
July 6, 2025

Many a jazz/rock-fusion fan's heart may have been broken when Lost Tribe took a more traditional jazz-sounding turn for their third (and final) album, Many Lifetimes (Arabesque, 1998), but those that hung in there knew the gold that group still had in it--as tracks like “Calle Siete"" plainly illustrate. ...

Lost Tribe: Vevasis

by Mike Jacobs
April 9, 2023

From the band's final release Many Lifetimes (Arabesque, 1998), “Vevasis" is a marvel of impressionistic, stream-of-consciousness jazz construtionalism from the pen of saxophonist David Binney that may have arguably left compositional signposts for forward-thinking bands to come. Ben Perowsky's inspiring drum work is icing on this one-of-a-kind cake. ...

Lost Tribe: Lost Tribe

by John Kelman
January 14, 2015

Lost TribeLost TribeWindham Hill Jazz1993 Today's Rediscovery ultimately jumpstarted the careers of five young musicians who have since gone on to varying degrees of greater fame and exposure. While not necessarily household names, few who follow the contemporary jazz scene will be unaware of saxophonist David Binney, guitarists Adam Rogers and David Gilmore, bassist Fima Ephron and drummer Ben Perowsky. Together, as Lost Tribe, the quintet released a stunning debut on Windham Hill Jazz that ...

Lost Tribe: Many Lifetimes

by John W. Patterson
February 1, 1999

It is good to hear more of this phenomenal jazz unit. From their debut self-titled release in 1992 to Soulfish in 1993 it was pure ecstasy for me to try to keep up with all this band's hyper-kinetic twists and turns. They could Coltrane soothe, they could play heavy metallic fusion, they would rap to jazz, they got speed funky, and even strains of Mahavishnu Orchestra could be detected. But first and foremost Lost Tribe was avant-garde cutting edge jazz. ...

Lost Tribe: Many Lifetimes

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 1998

It is good to hear more of this phenomenal jazz unit. From their debut self-titled release in 1992 to Soulfish in 1993 it was pure ecstasy for me to try to keep up with all this band's hyper-kinetic twists and turns. They could Coltrane soothe, they could play heavy metallic fusion, they would rap to jazz, they got speed funky, and even strains of Mahavishnu Orchestra could be detected. But first and foremost Lost Tribe was avant-garde cutting edge jazz. ...

LOST TRIBE out-of-print CDs for sale

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2002

Fusion friends and collectors,

Please pass this info on if you want.

I cannot emphasize how !must-have! the debut release of Lost Tribe is to jazz fusion folks.

Discovering them years back was a huge joy.

I now have THREE of these out-of-print CDs. Two are for sale. The third is mine all mine. Believe it or not, I found a fourth one just a few hours ago. I know where it is but I didn't buy it due to ...
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