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William Parker/Joe Morris/Hamid Drake

Eloping With The Sun

By William Parker/Joe Morris/Hamid Drake

Label: Riti Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Sand Choir; Dawn Sun; Hop-Kin; Stepdance; Dream.

William Parker/Joe Morris/Hamid Drake: Eloping With The Sun

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2003

When jazz players harness African music, it's always interesting to see what forms the musicians preserve from each style. After all, the goal of such a hybrid is to preserve elements of both traditions in order to achieve a result that is more than the sum of its parts. Eloping With The Sun has ...

William Parker/Joe Morris/Hamid Drake: Eloping With The Sun

by Mark Corroto
March 2, 2003

The surprise in the pairing of these three creative music superstars is not that they have finally recorded together. The astonishing thing about Eloping With The Sun is the music they decided to make. Choosing African instruments, percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker create trance-inducing rhythms for guitarist Joe Morris to play the ...