Name: Anthony Branker & Ascent
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Release Date: 23rd Aug 2024
Catalogue No: ORIGIN82876
Label: Origin Records
Length: 59 minutes

Due for release on 23rd Aug 2024

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Anthony Branker: Chant for Peace Eternal

Work length7:07

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Ascent, Ralph Peterson Jr., Clifford Adams, Ralph Bowen, Jonny King

Anthony Branker: Parris in April

Work length8:31

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Ascent, Ralph Peterson Jr., Antonio Hart, Ralph Bowen, Jonny King

Anthony Branker: Spirit Song

Work length7:26

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Ascent, Ralph Peterson Jr., Ralph Bowen, Antonio Hart, Jonny King, Clifford Adams

Anthony Branker: Sketches of Selim

Work length7:21

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Ascent, Ralph Peterson Jr., John Benitez, Ralph Bowen, Antonio Hart, Clifford Adams

Anthony Branker: Imani (Faith)

Work length6:44

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Ascent, Ralph Peterson Jr., Clifford Adams, Jonny King, Antonio Hart

Anthony Branker: In God's Hands

Work length6:02

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Ascent, Ralph Peterson Jr., Ralph Bowen, Jonny King

Anthony Branker: Mentor

Work length8:04

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Ascent, Ralph Peterson Jr., Antonio Hart, Ralph Bowen, Clifford Adams, Jonny King

Anthony Branker: J.C.'s Passion

Work length7:54

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Ascent, Ralph Peterson Jr., Jonny King, Clifford Adams, Antonio Hart, Ralph Bowen

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Composer Anthony Branker's ninth album for Origin Records is a re-issue of his debut recording for Sons of Sound Records in 2006. This was Branker's first recording as a composer/bandleader writing specifically for his ensemble, Ascent, the first of his three collectives that would establish him as an important emerging writer and "a force to be reckoned with in the world of modern post-bop jazz." Spirit Songs is a bold, spacious recording that showcases Branker's earlier compositions, rooted in modal harmonies, displaying a unique sense of lyricism and full of highly rhythmic grooves, based in the world of jazz but blended with culturally diverse musical styles. At the center of the recording is the inspired, fiery and always surprising drumming of the late, great Ralph Peterson, Jr., whom, along with trombonist Clifford Adams, Jr., this reissue is dedicated in the memory of. With saxophonists Antonio Hart and Ralph Bowen, pianist Jonny King, and bassist John Benitez, Spirit Songs marked an auspicious debut for this formidable composer whose "place in Jazz has been consistently building unique architectures that speak to the cultural reparation of allowing this art form to thrive as protest music."

"...Anthony Branker's compositions are luxuriously packaged in both classical and jazz forms, blending and intermingling to the point of no longer knowing what planet we are on, except for that of an exceptional composer... Musical beauty in the service of thought, or perhaps the reverse..." -- Paris-Move

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