In The Tradition - Sirius! (2012)

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In The Tradition - Sirius! (2012)

Artist: In The Tradition
Title Of Album: Sirius!
Year Of Release: 2012
Label (Catalog#): AFJ Music [AFJS 1905/6]
Country: United States
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Vocal Jazz, World
Quality: Mp3 / FLAC (tracks +.cue,log)
Bitrate: CBR 320 kbps / Lossless
Time: 2:26:00
Full Size: 350 mb / 986 mb
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In The Tradition is the name of a group of Detroit-area musicians who perform essentially straightahead jazz in a variety of instrumental combinations. Olujimi Tafataona, an instructor of truck-driving by day, serves as its leader. He also composes and arranges for the band, along with performing on several woodwind instruments. Although the album notes for Sirius emphasize jazz’s Africa-derived aspects and the band does sometimes employ African percussion instruments and rhythms, much of the two-disk set is devoted to standards and tunes by Curtis Fuller, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Wayne Shorter, and even funkster James Brown and the Brazilian Luiz Bonfá. Further, a pair of Tafataona’s originals are themselves orthodox bossa novas. But keyboardist Foluke Sheareri’s “Kukumba” features percussionist Kefentse Chika’s skillful playing of the African instrument the Djembe and “A PanAfrikan Prayer (Bridge to Tommorow),” credited to the leader and Aurora Harris, spotlights Harris’s spoken-word performance that “speaks to the centuries of African exploitation and abuse.” Buoyed by a strong rhythm section, the band displays great gusto, although the ensemble lacks precision at times and intonation can be questionable. The quality of the improvised solos is uneven also, but some are quite good. Tafataona’s husky-toned tenor fill-ins behind soulful, surefooted vocalist Imari Jendayi on “I Thought About You” are especially expressive. Copyright 2012 Cadence Media, LCC All rights reserve

TRACKLIST:

Disc One
01) Chantized
02) Crises
03) Dreams
04) Fancy Free
05) Children Of The Night
06) Pass The Peas
07) Samba E Canto
08) Black Orpheus
09) I Thought About You

Disc Two
01) She Sings To The Wind (With Feeling)
02) You Don't Know What Love Is
03) Winter Meeting
04) Noloyiso
05) Kukumbuka
06) Trouble Of The World
07) One Love (For The People)
08) A Pan-Afrikan Prayer (Bridge To Tomorrow)
09) Sirius


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