This is my first time back on the scene since the passing of my love. Quite different ,but happy to experience live free creative sound.
The second piece is a Bang composition and it is played out like a thriller packed with unanticipated adventure. His violin is tuned in to my favorite frequency, inside out!
The Hamiet Bluiett hops in with his tenor screaming expression from the top of the mountain to the baritone valley stopping on the ledges between the notes of safety and peril. Although death is never the intended destination, the cutting edge music opens the portal to worlds between parallel universes.
Khalil El Zabar is up communicating with the spirit of the rhythm Gods. Soul, Soul, Soul, an ethnic heating pad warms the skin of his African instrument as he proceeded to play another mantra and sing his political phrases in Scott Heron fashion. These brothers are pied piping us into a hedonistic realm where milk, honey and music rule the land.
Our gathering feels like it is outside under the stars around a warm fire more than inside the comfort of the Jazz Bakery; mental teleportation to scenes and images erected by the music. The source is definitely spiritual in nature and gives us a sense of oneness as humans. It’s like we are taken and lifted out of our body to dance and sing before we return back as changed spirits.
“We as humans are responsible for
changing our world” as Khalil El Zabar expresses his disdain for the current
regime. He ends the set with a solo a cappella performance of Nancy Wilson and
Cannonball’s version of “Save your love for me”.
LeRoy Downs
