Healing Suite, by The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz

Healing Suite

by The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$10 USD or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Order the CD Edition of Healing Suite, which features the concert version of "Freedom's Sweet," that you can play through or select sections from, along with extensive liner notes by Matthew Duersten.

Includes unlimited streaming of Healing Suite via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 10 days

Purchasable with gift card

$14 USD or more

1.	Strange Fruit 06:43	buy track
2.	Healing Suite 11:10	buy track
3.	Freedom's Sweet Part 1 08:38	buy track
4.	Freedom's Sweet Part 2 15:09	buy track
5.	Freedom's Sweet Part 3 07:05	buy track
6.	Mother 07:47	buy track

about

On November 8, 2015 Jesse Sharps, one of the great composers to emerge out of the Los Angeles progressive jazz scene and an early bandleader in Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Akrestra, brought together a select group of musicians at the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum in Culver City, California for special concert to celebrate The Gathering, a historic recording summit that had occurred a decade earlier at Cal Arts in Valencia. This album is a select representation from that concert in 2015, and features several of the musicians present at the original summit from 2005. This release includes a bonus, full-length version of "Freedom's Sweet" and extended liner notes by Matthew Duersten.

Early in the program Dwight Trible brought forth a disarming version of Strange Fruit in a stunning duo with Theo Saunders on piano. Kamau Daáood performed Healing Suite, a transcendent incantation of poetry accompanied by cello, bass, piano, percussion, and drums. And with what was the pinnacle and closing piece in the concert that day, Freedom’s Sweet, conducted by bandleader Jesse Sharps, featured a powerful intro by Kamau Daáood, vocals by Maia, solos by Roberto Miranda, Phil Ranelin, Fritz Wise, and Mercedes Smith in an epic and moving masterpiece put together by Horace Tapscott.

Mother, sung by Dwight Trible, with music by Nate Morgan and lyrics by Kamau Daáood, was performed earlier in the program but serves as both an emotional and musical coda for the journey this album represents. A journey that reaches back “400 years” as Maia sings it in Freedom’s Sweet. And in Healing Suite, Kamau’s chants of “Come healers, come warriors to this place of chaos,” get their response in the next tune with Maia singing “Marcus, Medgar, Malcolm, Martin” and calling out ”Black Lives Matter” as she “scats new landscapes.” Here we have our own healers and warriors, straight from this deep community of artists and musicians. Amos Delone, Danny Cortez, Derf Reklaw, Dwight Trible, Fritz Wise, Fundi Legohn, Greg Ramsey, Jesse Sharps, Kamau Daáood, Maia, Mercedes Smith, Nick Rosen, Phil Ranelin, Roberto Miranda, and Theo Saunders all digging into this rich history. A Healing Suite for your hearts, minds, and ears!

credits

released January 17, 2022

Jesse Sharps - Bandleader/Woodwinds
Dwight Trible - Vocals
Maia - Vocals/Flute
Kamau Daáood - Poetry
Mercedes Smith - Alto Saxophone
Amos Delone - Baritone Saxophone
Fundi Legohn - French Horn
Danny Cortez - Trumpet
Phil Ranelin - Trombone
Greg Ramsey - Tuba
Nick Rosen - Cello/Bass on "Mother"
Roberto Miranda - Bass
Theo Saunders - Piano
Derf Reklaw - Congas/Percussion
Fritz Wise - Drums

Recorded live by Wayne Peet November 8th, 2015 in Culver City, CA at the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum
Mixed and Mastered by Wayne Peet at New Zone Studios in Los Angeles, CA

Produced by Jesse Sharps, Thomas Paige
Cover Photos by Sam Lee
Album art by Sam Lee and Michael Hentz

The Village

license

about

The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz image

The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz Los Angeles, California

A multigenerational music project started by Jesse Sharps, an early bandleader of Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, rooted in Leimert Park, and the progressive LA jazz scene featuring stellar cast of players including some of the hottest young rising stars. ... more

discography

Healing Suite

Jan 2022
Leimert Park

Aug 2020
Justice

Feb 2010
Warriors All

Feb 2010

contact / help

Contact The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like The Gathering: Roots & Branches of Los Angeles Jazz, you may also like:

60 Years
by Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra

supported by 17 fans who also own “Healing Suite”
go to album
Offering - Live at Le Guess Who
by Nicole Mitchell and Moor Mother

supported by 11 fans who also own “Healing Suite”

Intriguing, enchanting and terrifying all at once. To me it's the perfect soundtrack I'd envision for waking up in a strange nation and not knowing the name of the place, or any contextual understanding about the culture, or even remembering how you got there in the first place. It has the capacity to be a negative or positive experience in equal measure, a testament to the two talented women behind this record. Ben Harris
go to album
Suite for Max Brown
by Jeff Parker

supported by 11 fans who also own “Healing Suite”

A most hypnotic/comforting/freeing/fresh jazz record. hoopboyhandro
go to album
Pharoah
by Pharoah Sanders

featured on Bandcamp Radio Sep 19, 2023
go to album
Eastern Sounds
by Yusef Lateef

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 6, 2021
go to album
Live In Europe Vol.1
by Noah Howard

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 31, 2020
go to album
Universal Beings
by Makaya McCraven

supported by 11 fans who also own “Healing Suite”

I was brought here after listening to a live performance of Makaya's on you tube. I instantly loved the song Holy Lands so much that I had to see if the album version was the same rendition as the live one. Then I listened to the whole album! Universal Beings is a just a groove... It's a mix of traditional and something new, very nice. pandr1900
go to album