Fourth Blue Note LP from the Zulu healer-pianist -- songs as ritual, forgiveness as form. Coltrane/Tyner underneath, 18-year-old son dragging the electronics somewhere new; Shabaka, Black Coffee, township choir. Spiritual jazz reaching back to lineage and forward to posterity at once. Enters as the 50's first spiritual-jazz name.
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BENCHMARK IN THE 50 · Igwe Aka (cross-idiom; diaspora-root, making-as-ceremony)