Kahil El'Zabar - What It IsAfter leading albums on Delmark that featured jazz vets Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp, Kahil El'Zabar is back with a pride of young lions. Tenor saxophonist Kevin Nabors has studied with Von Freeman, Ari Brown and recorded with Corey Wilkes. Keyboardist Justin Dillard is in many bands in various styles of music including his own D O 3 O organ group. Bassman extraordinaire Junius Paul has recorded with many Chicago jazz greats including Corey

acoustic ladyland and Shabaka HutchinsDanny Keane on piano and Rhodes known for his work with Mulatu Astatke

each in their own way

inspired by The Stroll of the Diamonds

it carries you along on it's lumbering back

It's an eclectic and electric collection drawing on new school jazz

Jonathan Edwards

The original releases on Modern

Volume Six contains six English folksongs and is the only one of the sets that he scored for voice and guitar

'Terral' is like a constant variation in a transparent and airy soundscape reminiscent of the soil taking on a new appearance when blown by the wind

Original Language: English

"The Wives of the Dead" deals with the "waking dreams such as Hawthorne explored again and again in fiction and in sketches like 'The Haunted Mind

Neither Staples nor Helm knew that this would be their last performance together-the collection marks one of Helm's final recordings before his death-and listening back now