Erie Art Museum Contemporary Music Series Celebrates Black History Month
Summary
With folkish simplicity and beguilingly subdued dynamics, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – drums, guitar and two horns – achieves an effect something like an ad hoc percussion band walking the second line, with a little James Brown.A versatile and extremely gifted piano player, Rachel has performed with Peter Gabriel, Al DiMeloa, Steps Ahead, Lenny White and Stanley Clarke.This all- star group of creative jazz legends from Chicago are all band leaders in their own right: Kahil El’Zabar, drums, earth drums, kalimba; Corey Wilkes, trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion; Ernest Dawkins, alto and tenor saxophone, percussions; Fareed Haque, electric and acoustic guitar.Down Beat describes Ethnic Heritage as “the forms being advanced here – or at least merged in a creative, new way – are African American syncopation (funk, jazz) and the vertically integrated multiple parts of the African drum ensemble music.With folkish simplicity and beguilingly subdued dynamics, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – drums, guitar and two horns – achieves an effect something like an ad hoc percussion band walking the second line, with a little James Brown.Rachel Z TrioThe Rachel Z Trio will be in concert at the Erie Art Museum Annex, 423 State Street, on February 21 at 8 p.m.Rachel Z and her piano trio mesmerized audiences at the Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival in 2003.A versatile and extremely gifted piano player, Rachel has performed with Peter Gabriel, Al DiMeloa, Steps Ahead, Lenny White and Stanley Clarke.