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Kahil El'Zabar: Quiet Shaman of Spiritual Jazz

by Chris May
April 20, 2023

Percussionist, kit drummer and composer Kahil El'Zabar founded the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble back in 1977. The group's sixteenth album, the gritty, groovecentric and exquisitely lyrical Spirit Gatherer: Tribute To Don Cherry (Spiritmusic), will be released on April 21, 2023. The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble has seen relatively few personnel changes during its long history. ...

Richard Brent Turner on Islam, Jazz and Black Liberation

by Lawrence Peryer
July 30, 2021

Richard Brent Turner is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the African American Studies Program at the University of Iowa. Since joining the faculty in 2001, Professor Turner has authored several books, including Jazz Religion, The Second Line, and Black New Orleans, New Edition (Indiana University Press, 2016), and Islam in the African-American Experience, ...

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels with Lucinda Williams at Zellerbach Hall

by Harry S. Pariser
December 29, 2018

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels with Lucinda Williams Zellerbach Hall Berkeley, CA December 6, 2018 It isn't often that a pedal steel guitar is found in a jazz ensemble. And it is even less frequent that a country music singer-songwriter joins one on vocals. But this iconoclastic collaboration had its genesis ...

Drums of Passion

By Babatunde Olatunji

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Akiwowo (Ah-Key-Woh-Woh) (Chant to the Trainman); Oya (Aw-Yah) (Primitive Fire) (Cult Rhythm); Odun de! Odun De! (Aw Dun Day! Aw Dun Day!) (Happy New Year); Gin-Go-Lo-Ba (Jin-Go-Low-Bah) (Drums of Passion); Kiyakiya (Kay-Ya-Key-Ya) (Why Do You Run Away?); Baba Jinde (Baba-Gee-Un-Day) (Flirtation Dance).

Olatunji: Drums of Passion

by Mike Perciaccante
May 10, 2003

Columbia Legacy's reissue of Drums Of Passion offers a chance for new listeners to fully appreciate the groundbreaking 1959 debut CD of the late African drummer Michael Babatunde Olatunji. Hailed as a genius by none other than jazz greats John Coltrane, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie and referenced by Bob Dylan on his Freewheeling ...

Olatunji

By Babatunde Olatunji

Label: M.A.T. Music Theme Licensing GmbH
Released: 0