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Marques Carroll: The Ancestors' Call
by Jerome Wilson
This is the debut album from Chicago-based trumpeter Marques Carroll and he uses it to address very specific concernsthe ongoing struggle for identity and freedom that African-Americans have been going through in the USA for centuries. He does this in compositions that represent a dialogue between generations, music that reaches back to the spiritual jazz of the Sixties as well as touching on the hip-hop, soul and Latin rhythms of today. On the opening The Ancestors' Call Upon ...
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