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Dwight Trible

Legendary LA jazz singer Dwight Trible is a firm favourite of all at Gondwana. He first came to international renown with his 2005 Ninja Tune release Love Is the Answer and his deeply soulful voice has seen him compared to Leon Thomas and Andy Bey. Trible has worked with the likes of Pharoah Sanders, Horace Tapscott and Kamasi Washington (he sings lead vocals on the Epic) and brings a deep-rooted soulfulness to everything that he sings.

His Gondwana Records debut, Inspirations, was produced by Matthew Halsall and featured Halsall together with members of the Gondwana Orchestra. His forthcoming EP with The Gondwana Orchestra, Colors, is a tribute to Pharoah Sanders.

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Album Review

Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Spirit Gatherer

Read "Spirit Gatherer" reviewed by Chris May


Anyone who was chair of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians for a decade knows a thing or two about keeping a group of independently minded artists focused on a common goal. Drummer and percussionist Kahil El'Zabar continues to demonstrate that with his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, an acoustic, improvising trio with an African foundation that has been recording since 1981. Most of the musicians who have passed through the group have been longtime members. The 2023 lineup comprises ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Lukas Traxel, Club D’Elf & JuJu

Read "Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Lukas Traxel, Club D’Elf & JuJu" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Spirit Gatherer--Tribute To Don Cherry is a forthcoming album by the esteemed Ethnic Heritage Ensemble that is worth checking out. Don Cherry's son David Ornette Cherry and vocalist Dwight Trible join the Ensemble for a session that captures the essence of one of the most important musicians in any genre. Other new recordings sampled in this edition include Swiss bassist Lukas Traxel's debut, Norwegian brothers Isach and Lauritz Skeidsvoll, Japan's Satoko Fujii hook up for the first time with guitarist ...

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Album Review

Dwight Trible: Ancient Future

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This adventurous album takes spiritual jazz's premier vocalist out of his comfort zone and into the deep blue yonder. It is a work of extremes, beginning with a storm of avant-rock, funk and electronics and ending by spinning off into abstract space accompanied by a virtual headful of Stanley Owsley's finest. In short, Ancient Future will shave your ass. The album is the follow-up to Trible's outstanding Mothership (Gearbox, 2019), but aside from being on the same ...

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Album Review

Horace Tapscott Quintet: Legacies for Our Grandchildren: Live in Hollywood 1995

Read "Legacies for Our Grandchildren: Live in Hollywood 1995" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Since its founding in 2011, the French record label Dark Tree has been issuing a “Roots Series" documenting previously unreleased performances of the Los Angeles jazz avant-garde from the 1970s through the '90s. Among the best of those releases have been several from Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra led by pianist/composer/conductor Horace Tapscott. Legacies for Our Grandchildren: Live in Hollywood 1995 is one of only two quintet albums led by the pianist. A community activist in South Central LA, Tapscott often ...

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Album Review

Mark de Clive-Lowe & Friends: Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders

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Albums by artists who are best known for their work outside jazz are best approached with caution. Keyboard player Mark de Clive-Lowe's Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders is one such. Before moving to Los Angeles, Clive-Lowe lived in London, where he was prominent in the late 1990s/early 2000s broken beat movement, which, without getting too complicated about it, fused electronic dance music with a little jazz and funk. Clive-Lowe, however, is no wannabe jazz musician. ...

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In Pictures

15 Months Later: How A Historic Los Angeles Performance Space Survived Covid

Read "15 Months Later: How A Historic Los Angeles Performance Space Survived Covid" reviewed by Chuck Koton


On March 1, 2020 The World Stage in Leimert Park, the cultural heart of the Black community in Los Angeles, hosted a fundraising concert to help Eliane Henri complete her documentary on the late, great horn master, Roy Hargrove. The performance featured veterans tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore and Willie Jones on drums, rising stars, pianist Gerald Clayton and Mike Gurrola on bass and included a short video of the still in-progress film. Little did anyone in the venue realize that ...

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Live Review

Dwight Trible at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

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Dwight Trible Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club London August 17, 2019 Dwight Trible inhabits a song with more than just his voice, he does so with his whole body—he uses every available limb and digit and twists and turns and shoehorns himself into his material. At Ronnie's tonight he resembled a man struggling to get into a raincoat several sizes too small in the face of a howling storm, all the while maintaining ...

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Recording

Katalyst Entertainment Releases New CD "Cosmic" by Vocalist Dwight Trible!

Katalyst Entertainment Releases New CD "Cosmic" by Vocalist Dwight Trible!

Source: OUTHOUSE pr

On December 15th 2011 Kataltst Entertainment releases Cosmic the long awaited new CD from vocalist Dwight Trible. With Cosmic the theme is love and from the opening track Speak To Us Of Love which Dwight says “was inspired by the text on love from the famous Kahlil Gibran book The Prophet" right through the closing track, Dwight's own treatment of the 60's soul classic Ooh Child sung here “because it is a song of hope" the spirit of love is ...

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Recording

Katalyst Entertainment Releases New CD "Cosmic" By Vocalist Dwight Trible!

Katalyst Entertainment Releases New CD "Cosmic" By Vocalist Dwight Trible!

Source: Michael Ricci

On November 15th 2011 Kataltst Entertainment releases Cosmic the long awaited new CD from vocalist Dwight Trible. With Cosmic the theme is love and from the opening track “Speak To Us Of Love" which Dwight says “was inspired by the text on love from the famous Kahlil Gibran book The Prophet right through the closing track, Dwight's own treatment of the 60's soul classic “Ooh Child" sung here “because it is a song of hope" the spirit of love is ...

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Festival

Angel City Jazz Festival Opens October 2nd at REDCAT with Henry Grimes's Return to the LA Stage plus the Dwight Trible/John Beasley Duo

Angel City Jazz Festival Opens October 2nd at REDCAT  with Henry Grimes's Return to the LA Stage  plus the Dwight Trible/John Beasley Duo

Source: DL Media

Los Angeles' cutting-edge jazz celebration, the Angel City Jazz Festival, now in its third year, is pleased to open its 2010 edition with a very special return to the Los Angeles stage by Henry Grimes, the legendary “lost" bassist. Opening for Henry in this evening of astonishing music will be the Dwight Trible/John Beasley Duo, showcasing Trible's soulful vocals and Beasley's outrageous piano chops. On Saturday October 2nd, The Angel City Jazz Festival opening night event takes place at REDCAT, ...

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Performance / Tour

Beethoven Billy Bragg Ninth Concert, August 29th to Feature Dwight Trible, Asia America Youth Orchestra Under the Baton of David Benoit

Beethoven Billy Bragg Ninth Concert, August 29th to Feature Dwight Trible, Asia America Youth Orchestra Under the Baton of David Benoit

Source: Teresa Conboy PR

The North American premiere of Billy Bragg's version of Ode to Joy, the choral finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will take place Saturday, August 29th at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, 7:00 10:00 p.m. The Asia America Youth Orchestra will perform the piece under the baton and musical direction of David Benoit. At the concert Bragg will perform and lead the audience in a sing-along of the choral.

In keeping with The Ninths spirit of international connection the concert ...

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Ancient Future

Gearbox Records
2023

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Spirit Gatherer:...

Self Produced
2023

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Freedom: Celebrating...

Soul Bank Music
2022

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Legacies for Our...

Dark Tree Records
2022

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Mothership

Gearbox Records
2019

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Inspirations...

Gondwana Records
2017

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Hyku For Peace / Come Ye

From: Label Love Vol. 5: The Jazz...
By Dwight Trible

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