This is hardly a new concept just two years ago Heather McGhee's brilliant book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, was longlisted for the National Book Award for its exploration of the same premise, albeit one focused more closely on race.
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But, Neiman argues, social and economic inequities prevent even the rich white men at the top of the power structure from being able to experience their full humanity. People in marginalized communities must reckon with having unequal access to the opportunities that make success nearly a foregone conclusion for those positioned on the highest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder. Garrett continues to compose and perform at the highest level and to make tuneful and accessible music whilst still retaining his integrity.Drawing from a collection of captivating anecdotes and supported by extensive data, Garrett Neiman's Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America makes a compelling argument that inequality harms us all. It would be astonishing if Sounds from the Ancestors wasn’t also nominated perhaps it might even win. Kenny Garrett’s albums were nominated no fewer than eight times for the Grammys in the period 1997-2013. Garrett puts down the saxophone to play a calming solo piano at the beginning and end of the title track, Sounds From The Ancestors, and contrasts it with a frenetic central section that just about contains the vocal frenzy of Dwight Trible and Pedrito Marquez. What Was That? and Soldiers Of The Fields/Soldats Des Champs are tunes driven by a powering percussive beat of a mostly hard bop flavour. For Art’s Sake is most obviously a tribute to Art Blakey, but also to Tony Allen whose Afrobeat influence is evident in the thundering percussion. When The Days Were Different takes its primary influences from R&B and Gospel. The first version this climaxes with Dreiser Durruthy’s vocal chant, wheeas in the second version it gradually fades away. Each of them has an infectious percussive rhythm. The album is bookended by two contrasting versions of an Afro-Cuban jazz tune, It’s Time To Come Home.
This appears in the initial stand-out track, Hargrove, that also features the greatest number of vocal contributions, including from Garrett himself, over a rhythm that steadily progresses from a hard bop beat in the tradition of Roy Hargrove to something more Coltrane-like.
The songs are all written by Garrett with the exception of a brief interpolation from John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. (piano), Corcoran Holt (bass), Ronald Bruner (drums) and Rudy Bird (percussion)-the album hosts many guest musicians including vocalists Dwight Trible, Linny Smith, Chris Ashley Anthony and Sheherazade Holman. In addition to Garrett’s group- Vernell Brown, Jr. This is much more melodic music that sits comfortably within the modern jazz tradition.
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Miles Davis’ album On The Corner is an accredited influence, but mostly for its inventive approach towards extending the jazz vocabulary. This is a similar approach to that taken by eminent young London-based musicians like Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia and Nérija, but with an emphasis on genres such as Afro-Cuban jazz, Black American gospel and R&B. As the album title makes clear, Sounds from the Ancestors explores his ancestral musical legacy, exploring a variety of musical styles from Africa and the African diaspora.
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