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Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble

The Prairie Prophet

By Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Hymn For A Hip King; Sketches; Balladesque; Mal-Lester; Shades Of The Prairie Prophet; Mesopotamia; Baghdad Boogie.

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Prophet

by Jerry D'Souza
October 12, 2011

The Velvet Lounge in Chicago, opened by Fred Anderson in the 1980s, is well-known for the adventurous bands it presents. Time cannot encapsulate the number of bands that played there, fueling an ongoing interest in free jazz. Saxophonist Ernest Dawkins was one who found a welcoming stage; he now pays tribute to Anderson, who died in ...

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Prophet

by Nic Jones
May 14, 2011

The Prairie Prophet is the fifth release on Delmark from reed player Ernest Dawkins and his band. It's clear that over the course of that association both leader and band have evolved to the point where they can be considered as one of the more vibrant, most urgently alive outfits on the scene. This album pays ...

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Prairie Prophet

by Troy Collins
March 2, 2011

Since 1978, saxophonist Ernest Dawkins has led his flagship band, The New Horizons Ensemble, through myriad jazz traditions, from blues, swing and funk to post-bop, avant-garde and beyond. The Prairie Prophet, their fifth album on Delmark, is dedicated to one of Chicago's most venerated scene leaders, the late tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, a founding member of ...

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Messenger - Live At the Original Velvet Lounge

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 28, 2007

Ernest Dawkins non può dimenticare nemmeno per un istante il suo ruolo di educatore e di memoria viva della musica afroamericana. Colonna portante dell'AACM, sassofonista di grande energia, ogni suo progetto fa comprendere il jazz e la cultura nera meglio di ogni terribile “lezioncina" alla Marsalis. Volete una prova? The Messenger. Registrato nello storico [ormai ex] ...

The Messenger

By Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Intro; Mean Ameen; The Messenger; Goin' Downtown Blues; Toucouleur; The Brood; Lookin' For Ninny.

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Messenger

by Nic Jones
September 15, 2006

If these players are indeed looking towards new horizons, as the band's name suggests, then they're doing so from a vantage point rooted in the past, and their view of the past is of a worthwhile order. If a great many musicians regard it as something worthy only of the most submissive reverence, these guys view ...

Ernest Dawkins: Live At The Original Velvet Lounge

by Karl A.D. Evangelista
July 31, 2006

Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble Live At The Original Velvet Lounge Delmark 2006 Ernest “Khabeer Dawkins is old-school to the bone. Which is not to say that he's a conventionalist, much less a purist. In line with the philosophy of the Association for the Advancement of Creative ...

Cape Town Shuffle

By Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Toucouleur; Third Line And Cape Town Shuffle; Dolphy And Monk Dance; Jazz To Hip Hop.