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Violinist Sanders leads Conjúnto, perhaps the most adventurous jazz latino band in the country. Moving confidently from Afro-roots to free improvisation, James Sanders and Conjúnto are equally at home at a salsa dance party or on stage at the Velvet Lounge, a south side Chicago club known for its fierce new music aesthetic. Sanders attended a magnet school that drew students from all over the city. Being of a mixed Black/white/Latino background, he was not confined to any one social group or identity, so his friends at school were from all those cultures. His mother viewed the violin as a sophisticated instrument that carried a certain status, and James began lessons early, thoroughly absorbing the rigors of western classical music, eventually earning a scholarship to Yale University and a degree in violin performance
Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Open Me: A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit
by Chris May
The first few bars of Open Me: A Higher Consciousness Of Sound And Spirit promise the listener is in for a treat. Corey Wilkes' muted trumpet plays Miles Davis' “All Blues" counterpointed by Alex Harding's rugged baritone saxophone and Kahil El'Zabar's ankle bells and kalimba. Here is Ethnic Heritage Ensemble in all its enchanting bare-bones singularity, ...
Harrison Bankhead Sextet: Morning Sun, Harvest Moon
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Harrison Bankhead's uniqueness is not restricted solely to his bass playing, which is touched by the melodicism of Ray Brown and the authority and inventiveness of Charles Mingus in a voice singularly his own. Bankhead is a composer with a sensibility finely attuned to a painterly impressionism, while being unafraid to fly in the face of ...
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