Ancestral Song Explained

Ancestral Song
Type:live
Artist:Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
Cover:Ancestral_song_cover.jpeg
Released:1988
Recorded:May 3, 1987
Venue:Fasching Club, Stockholm
Genre:Jazz
Length:48:50 (LP)
63:10 (CD)
Label:Silkheart
Producer:Keith Knox
Chronology:Kahil El'Zabar
Prev Title:Another Kind of Groove
Prev Year:1986
Next Title:Golden Sea
Next Year: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

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

Notes and References

  1. http://www.silkheart.se/release.php?catno=108 Ancestral Song
  2. Book: Cook, Richard. Richard Cook (journalist)

    . Richard Cook (journalist). Brian Morton . Brian Morton (Scottish writer) . The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 2nd. The Penguin Guide to Jazz. 1994. Penguin. London. 0140179496. 415.