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Alex Harding

Spirit Gatherer: Tribute to Don Cherry

By Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Don Cherry; Lonely Woman; Evocation; Degi-Degi; Sketches of A Love Supreme; Bop On; Holy Man; Well You Needn't; The Opening; Harvest Time; Spirit Gatherer.

Blues to Be There

By RJ Spangler

Label: Eastlawn Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Spacemen; Pie Eye’s Blues; Chinoiserie; Blues to Be There; Moon Maiden; The Swingers Get the Blues Too; Blow by Blow; Tigress; Almost Cried; Purple Gazelle; Way Early Subtone; Take the ‘A’ Train; UMMG; Bonga; Moonbow; VIP’s Boogie/Jam with Sam.

Spirit Gatherer

By Kahil El'Zabar

Label: Spiritmuse
Released: 2023
Track listing: Don Cherry; Lonely Woman; Evocation; Degi-Degi; Sketches Of A Love Supreme; Bop On; Holy Man; Well You Needn’t; The Opening; Harvest Time; Spirit Gatherer.

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. ...

Planet D Nonet: Blues to Be There

by Jack Bowers
April 11, 2023

The subtitle of Blues to be There, the Detroit-based Planet D Nonet's latest album (recorded in June and July 2022), is “A Salute to Duke Ellington." As with almost any bow to the Duke, it encompasses a healthy measure of Billy Strayhorn as well. Ellington wrote or co-wrote thirteen of the album's persuasive numbers, Strayhorn five ...

Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Spirit Gatherer

by Chris May
April 7, 2023

Anyone who was chair of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians for a decade knows a thing or two about keeping a group of independently minded artists focused on a common goal. Drummer and percussionist Kahil El'Zabar continues to demonstrate that with his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, an acoustic, improvising trio with an African foundation ...

Dwight Trible: Ancient Future

by Chris May
March 2, 2023

This adventurous album takes spiritual jazz's premier vocalist out of his comfort zone and into the deep blue yonder. It is a work of extremes, beginning with a storm of avant-rock, funk and electronics and ending by spinning off into abstract space accompanied by a virtual headful of Stanley Owsley's finest. In short, Ancient Future will ...

Ugqozi

Label: Eastlawn Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: You Ain’t Gonna Know Me ‘Cos; Ithemba; Part Of A Whole; Lwandle’s Lullaby; Water No Get Enemy; Pata Pata; Jabulani Easter Joy.

The Paxton / Spangler Septet: Ugqozi

by Chris May
June 17, 2022

Ugqozi is a celebration of modern, urban African music, especially that from South Africa, with which co-leaders trombonist John “Tbone" Paxton and percussionist RJ Spangler have been in love for decades. It is also an affirmation of the vibrant Detroit scene of which the multi-generational Paxton / Spangler Septet is a part. Actually, ...