Randy Weston: The Spirits of our Ancestors

"Ever since Weston's first visits to Africa, his music has become more African at its deep-structure levels of rhythmic and tonal organization. But unlike many musicians who develop a fresh cultural orientation,
Weston has also maintained a profound appreciation for jazz in all its historic and stylistic permutations.The Spirits of Our Ancestors, a long double CD without one wasted note, features soloists as generationally and stylistically diverse as classic bebop trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Idreess Sulieman, longtime Count Basie trombonist Benny Powell and avant-garde saxophone firebrands Pharoah Sanders, Dewey Redman and Billy Harper. Each man sings his own song in solos of consistently breathtaking invention and clarity. And in Weston's music, they find enough common ground to unleash a steamrolling ensemble momentum, playing like one of the great late Fifties/early Sixties Charlie Mingus bands." ROBERT PALMER, Rolling Stone magazine

Personnel:
Randy Weston (piano);
Yassir Chadly (vocals, percussion);
Talib Kibwe (alto saxophone, alto flute);
Pharoah Sanders (tenor saxophone, gaita);
Billy Harper, Dewey Redman (tenor saxophone);
Dizzy Gillespie, Idrees Sulieman (trumpet);
Benny Powell (trombone);
Alex Blake, Jamil Nasser (bass);
Idris Muhammad (drums);
Big Black, Azzedin Weston (percussion).


Disk 1

1. African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 1 3:21
2. The Healers 10:48
3. African Cookbook 17:16
4. La Elaha-Ella Allah / Morad Allah 6:43
5. The Call 6:12

Disk 2

1. African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 2 8:30
2. The Seventh Queen 16:28
3. Blue Moses 12:01
4. African Sunrise 19:54
5. A Prayer For Us All 5:16

http://rapidshare.com/files/107139151/RW_TSoA.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/107149516/RW_TSoA.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/107155719/RW_TSoA.part3.rar