Phil Cohran & Legacy - African Skies - Blue Nile

Phil Cohran & Legacy - African Skies -- Blue Nile

Label: Captcha Records, 1993

Philip Cohran embodies everything spiritual and deep jazz stands for. Dynamics, melody, vocal pleasure, political opinion, variation of instruments and, of course, an incorporation of the African tribal sounds to the European jazz fusion aesthetics. But this record is an absolute gem for another reason. It is an ode to Cohran's longtime mentor and friend, Herman Blount, a.k.a Sun Ra. After Ra's death in 1992, Cohran gathered his favourite people, family and fellow musicians, and wrote this gem to the memory of his leader. On the last songs, Cohran and his fellow practitioners recruit congas, flutes, trombones, piccolo string bass, guitars and bass clarinets. The result is sublime, enlightening and often liberating. The latter captures the essence of the whole record. "Blue Nile" is slow-building, employing every single instrument that was mentioned and closing with another powerful yet lamenting mantra from Sadalla.

• Bass Clarinet -- Aquilla Sadalla
• Congas -- Kelan Phil Cohran*
• Double Bass [Piccolo String Bass] -- Oscar Brown III*
• Double Bass [String Bass] -- Malik Cohran, Oscar Brown III*
• Flute -- Aquilla Sadalla, Josefe Marie Verna, Malik Cohran, Oscar Brown III*, Kelan Phil Cohran*
• Guitar -- Aquilla Sadalla, Malik Cohran, Kelan Phil Cohran*
• Harp -- Kelan Phil Cohran*
• Harp [Classical] -- Josefe Marie Verna
• Kalimba [Frankiphone] -- Kelan Phil Cohran*
• Trombone -- Josefe Marie Verna
• Trumpet -- Kelan Phil Cohran*
• Ukulele [Violin Uke] -- Kelan Phil Cohran*
• Vocals -- Aquilla Sadalla

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