Kahil El Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble with Hamiet Bluiett Aust

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Epistrophy Arts in association with Pushermania presents Kahil El Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble with Ernest Khabeer Dawkins and the legendary Hamiet Bluiett

Wednesday February 19, 2014 8pm

at The North Door

502 Brushy St. Austin, TX, 78702 (map)

$16 General, $20 door

tickets https://www.artful.ly/store/events/2359

Kahil El Zabar (Chicago) - drums, percussion, kalimba, voice

Ernest Khabeer Dawkins (Chicago) - reeds

Hamiet Bluiett (NYC) - baritone saxophone, clarinet

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Epistrophy Arts in association with Pushermania are proud welcome the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble to Austin for its 40th anniversary celebration tour in support of their new CD release Black is Back.

Kahil El'Zabar led the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble’s first performance at Child City Arts Center in Chicago in 1973, one year after he had returned from his studies at the University of Ghana. His goal was to combine concepts of African American music making with the earlier roots of traditional African music to produce something new. In his own words: "The spirit of one's approach comes first before the technical. All the facility in the world with nothing that comes from the heart doesn't make good music. The basis of the strength of any artistic evolution has come from ethnicity." After 40 years, this legendary band is still serving the people worldwide with their special brand of 21st century Griot music.

The group features Ernest Dawkins of the New Horizons Ensemble, and special guest, the legendary Hamiet Bluiett, considered to be one of the most important baritone saxophonist in jazz today. The trio's "harmonically provocative and rhythmically seductive" (Chicago Tribune) performances impart an ancestral wisdom that conjures an energy rarely encountered in contemporary music.

bios

Kahil El'Zabar (b.1953) is one of Chicago's jazz treasures. He joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the early 1970s, and became its chairman in 1975. He regularly records for Chicago's Delmark Records and, during the 1970s, he formed the acclaimed ensembles Ritual Trio and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, both of which remain active today. El'Zabar has performed alongside a myriad of jazz greats such as Cannonball Adderley, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and Dizzy Gillespie, but also in the bands of Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone.

Ernest Dawkins (b.1953) is one of Chicago's premier jazz saxophonists whose music reflects his extraordinary talent not just as a musician but a composer as well. He has recorded eleven CD's and is the founder and leader of his own group, New Horizons Ensemble. Dawkins has worked with a myriad of music greats which include: Ramsey Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, Edward Wilkerson, Jr., Henry Threadgill, Amina Claudine Myers, Anthony Braxton, Jack McDuff, Don Moye, Jerry Butler, and The Dells. As a world renowned musician, Dawkins has performed in Maputo Mozambique and appeared on local radio and television programs as well as workshops there. He's performed with Zina Nggawana in Pretoria and at the Hugh Masekela Club J&B in Johnanesburg both in South Africa. He is also working as a consultant to The Jazz Club De Maputo in Mozambique.

Hamiet Bluiett (b. 1940) combines a blunt, modestly inflected attack with a fleet, aggressive technique, and a uniform hugeness of sound that extends from his horn's lowest reaches to far beyond what is usually its highest register. In St. Louis in the 1960s, Bluiett co-founded the Black Artists' Group (BAG), an artist collective not unlike Chicago's AACM. And, in 1969, he moved to New York City to join the Charles Mingus Quintet and the Sam Rivers Large Ensemble. In 1976 he co-founded the World Saxophone Quartet (along with two other Black Artists' Group members, Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake), which soon became jazz music's most renowned saxophone quartet. Over the years, Bluiett has also worked with Babatunde Olatunji, Abdullah Ibrahim, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye.

http://ernestdawkins.com/

http://www.kahilelzabar.net/

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1866

up next: Bobby Bradford 4 @ Victory Grill March 23 http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD24/PoD24BobbyBradford.html

Ballister @ Victory Grill April 5 http://daverempis.com/ballister/

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.

Edited January 16, 2014 by epistrophy arts

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up next: Bobby Bradford 4 @ Victory Grill March 23 http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD24/PoD24BobbyBradford.html

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.

Any update on this one?

[JSngry]

Still on, hopefully?

http://epistrophyarts.tumblr.com/post/77376055045/bobby-bradford-4-march-23-victory-grill-stay

Yes?