Ancestral Song

Ancestral Song
Live album by Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
Released 1988
Recorded May 3, 1987
Fasching Club, Stockholm
Genre Jazz
Length 48:50 (LP)
63:10 (CD)
Label Silkheart
Producer Keith Knox
Kahil El'Zabar chronology
Another Kind of Groove
(1986)
Ancestral Song
(1988)
Golden Sea
(1989)

Ancestral Song is an album by Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, an American jazz band formed in the mid-1970s by percussionist Kahil El'Zabar. The album, featuring saxophonist Edward Wilkerson, who joined the group in 1978, and trombonist Joseph Bowie, the third player in the band since 1986, was recorded live at Fasching Club, Stockholm in 1987 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[2]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "Ancestral Song was a somewhat modest start, with Bowie's lines offering only cautious counterpoint to Wilkerson's intensities."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Kahil El'Zabar
  1. "Papa's Bounce" – 9:35
  2. "Loose Pocket" – 15:15
  3. "Ancestral Song" – 13:25
  4. "Mamma's House" – 10:35
  5. "Three and a Half" – 8:20
  6. "Kahil's Blues" – 6:00
5 & 6 does not appear on original LP

Personnel

References

  1. Ancestral Song Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. at Silkheart
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (1994). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (2nd ed.). London: Penguin. p. 415. ISBN 0140179496.
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