| 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]
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]
All compositions by Kahil El'Zabar
5 & 6 does not appear on original LP
. 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.