Results for "The Ancestors' Call"

Album

The Ancestors' Call

By Marques Carroll

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Ancestors' Call Upon Us; Generational Response; Assemble The Enlightened; Beyond The Battle; Urgency; Aries Goddess (For Consuela and the Fallen); Resolution For US; The Ancestors' Final Words.

Article: Album Review

Marques Carroll: The Ancestors' Call

by Jerome Wilson
July 5, 2021

This is the debut album from Chicago-based trumpeter Marques Carroll and he uses it to address very specific concerns—the ongoing struggle for identity and freedom that African-Americans have been going through in the USA for centuries. He does this in compositions that represent a dialogue between generations, music that reaches back to the spiritual jazz of ...

Video

Aries Goddess

Featuring the music of Marques Carroll
Duration: 6:27
May 27, 2021

"Aries Goddess (For Consuela and the Fallen)" is a new video from ace Chicago trumpeter Marques Carroll. Featured on his debut album The Ancestors' Call, this moving composition was written for the mothers of victims of gun violence. The bandleader notes that “[it] happens all too often, whether it is by street violence or by the hands of those who are supposed to serve and protect. This piece is for all of our brothers and sisters who have lost their lives on this soil.”