We Be All Africans

Ackamoor's Cultural Unity label release brought back his Pyramids project with a record that sounds like a ceremony in progress — 'Warrior Dance' and 'Joie de Vivre' have the loose, alive quality of a room of musicians actually listening to each other. His alto saxophone sits in the lineage of Pharoah Sanders's emotional directness but with a West African percussion flavor and something ceremonial in the sequencing. Came back at a moment when the spiritual jazz revival was beginning to stir.

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