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Post Modern Spirituals: The Promised Land
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: The Departure; The Struggle; The Postmodern Spiritual; Motherless Child (Revisited); Strength;
Deep River; Freedom Dreaming; The Promise.
Tyrone Birkett | Emancipation: Post Modern Spirituals: The Promised Land
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist and composer Tyrone Birkett's early output, particularly his In the Fullness of Time (Convergence Records, 2006) was dangerously close to the over-sentimental, syrupy and innocuous sounds of (gasp!) smooth jazz. What kept the record from falling over into that, much maligned, genre was Birkett's superlative improvisational chops and his robust devotional sense. On his sophomore ...
