Kwanza (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP BF20 multi-instrumentalist and vocalist

multi-instrumentalist and vocalist

the only recorded collaboration between Tyner and Alice Coltrane who plays harp on three of the album’s four tracks—including the expansive opener ‘Message from the Nile’—along with Wayne Shorter

End Of The Line

Ross assembled the album’s narrative in halves

What It Takes (feat

Kwanza (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP BF20 multi-instrumentalist and vocalistThese 1969 recordings (released 5 years later) combine Shepps free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues and funk through an African lens, all in a big band setting. The all star brass section, featuring James Spaulding and Charles Davis on sax along with trombonist Graham Moncur III lead the way on stand outs including New Africa and Spoo Pee Doo. This Verve By Request LP features transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180 gram vinyl, pressed at