Description:
Kahil El'Zabar, drums, earth drums, kalimba; Corey Wilkes, trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion; Ernest Dawkins, alto and tenor saxophone, percussion; Fareed Haque, electric and acoustic guitar. In a Down Beat review of their previous Delmark album, Freedom Jazz Dance 517 Paul de Barros wrote "The forms being advanced here or at least merged in a creative, new way are African American syncopation funk, jazz and the vertically integrated multiple parts of African drum ensemble music. With folkish simplicity and beguilingly subdued dynamics, Ethnic heritage Ensemble drums, guitar and two horns achieves an effect something like an ad hoc percussion band walking the second line, with a little James Brown thrown in." |